Nuclear Power Is the Answer to Global and Environmental Energy Woes
Except in the real world where wind + solar account for the vast majority of GW added. Nuclear just doesn&#x27;t matter. It&#x27;s 2023, there&#x27;s an energy crisis on. Where are the new nuclear plants in Europe? Where are the GW of power saving us from rolling blackouts in Europe? Nuclear is a no show. It didn&#x27;t happen. Not even a little bit. It didn&#x27;t matter. Too little (well barely anything at all), too late.<p>There&#x27;s this pesky thing called cost that nuclear proponents just refuse to address. They are all scientific about how nuclear works. How great it is. Etc. But when it comes to cost, they suddenly check out, go hand wavy, and generally refuse to talk numbers. You could do this, you could do that. But nobody really likes being put on the spot about what exactly to do for how much.<p>Not a single dollar sign in this article nor the string &quot;dollar&quot;. Or other common currency such as &quot;Euro&quot;. There&#x27;s nothing else to be said about this article. It just completely ignores cost. It&#x27;s all hand wavy and devoid of facts about cost. Very typical. Must be deeply embarrassing to read such drivel for an actual nuclear physicist with a clue. Guilty by association and it&#x27;s not a good look. If these are your biggest fans, you are royally screwed.<p>The whole argument for nuclear evaporates as soon as you bring up cost. Then it&#x27;s suddenly about such pesky things as $&#x2F;mwh and delays, budget overruns, etc. And the fact that there are things you can buy and install that have very well known $&#x2F;mwh cost that work as advertised.