Nuclear works now. We just have to build it.
Intermittent renewables supplying an industrial society does not. And there is no way to get from here to there except a lot of handwaving and "magic happens here".
https://image.slidesharecdn.com/20100608webcontentchicagosli...
Nuclear fans could only dream of this rate of improvement.
Nuclear doesn't work in the sense of being competitive. It's behind and falling farther behind with each passing day.
The best time to have given up on nuclear was decades ago. The second best time is now.
Nuclear doesn't need this rate of improvement, because it was always cheap.
> Nuclear doesn't work in the sense of being competitive.
Empirically false.
Also: if it weren't competitive, Germany wouldn't have had to outlaw nuclear, it just would have disappeared on its own.
> The best time to have given up on nuclear was decades ago.
Your incorrect and unsubstantiated opinion is not shared by the rest of the world.
These are build times for just single Reactor Blocks, in 2020 to 2022. https://www.worldnuclearreport.org/IMG/pdf/wnisr2023-v5.pdf#...
Real examples in the last years: Olkiluoto 3 - 17 Years SHIDAO BAY-1 - 9 Years Flammanvill-3 - 17 Years VOGTLE-4 - 11 Years FANGCHENGGANG-4 - 8 Years RAJASTHAN-7 - 14 Years