> Firstly, it's not cheap compared to modern solar and that trend is likely to continue. Only if you omit cost of energy storage infrastructure and grid upgrad

> Firstly, it's not cheap compared to modern solar and that trend is likely to continue. Only if you omit cost of energy storage infrastructure and grid upgrades necessary for VRE. > Secondly, it's not a responsive source of electricity - so you can't modulate the output easily. Repeated often by nuclear critics even though there's evidence out there of German nuclear modulating load within 24 hours. > Fourthly, as we found last year, during heat waves rivers can run dry causing a shortage of water to cool the plants forcing them to go offline. French powerplants did not go offline last summer, a few of them that lack sufficient cooling tower infrastructure had to eject hotter than usual water into rivers.