The Nuclear Option
Just about every builder and operator of large nuclear fleets of reactors have all outright said or implied by their actions that nuclear is uneconomical vs renewable power options. The massive bulge of capital and scheduling needed points to humans not being able to build a next generation of nuclear plants in time to head off the worst climate change, and renewable energy sources being both faster and cheaper to build.<p>France: 44 Billion would be saved by investing in rewables instead of nuclear<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.bloomberg.com&#x2F;news&#x2F;articles&#x2F;2018-12-10&#x2F;french-power-costs-will-rise-if-renewables-are-sidestepped" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.bloomberg.com&#x2F;news&#x2F;articles&#x2F;2018-12-10&#x2F;french-po...</a><p>Private operators in the US have said new plants are unlikely due to the economics of nuclear:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.usnews.com&#x2F;news&#x2F;national-news&#x2F;articles&#x2F;2018-04-16&#x2F;exelon-official-no-new-nuclear-plants-to-be-built-in-the-us" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.usnews.com&#x2F;news&#x2F;national-news&#x2F;articles&#x2F;2018-04-1...</a><p>The last few completed plants in the US (that didn&#x27;t get canceled) were 20-30 years in the making - and typically over budget and schedule by more than 2x.  With some of the cancelled projects over budget by 3-4x.<p>Even China, which embarked on building it&#x27;s own fleet of nuclear plants, and has all sorts of regulatory advantages found that construction was slow and overbudget:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.technologyreview.com&#x2F;s&#x2F;612564&#x2F;chinas-losing-its-taste-for-nuclear-power-thats-bad-news&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.technologyreview.com&#x2F;s&#x2F;612564&#x2F;chinas-losing-its-...</a>