One of the facts that has fallen out of this is the pattern of the Green Lucy Van Pelt:
Nuclear power - BAD!
OK, we'll get rid of nukes.
Coal - BAD!
OK, we'll get rid of dirty coal and move to clean natural gas.
We're halfway down the Green clown funnel where natural gas [fracking] is declared to be BAD!, in order to move on to unicorn farts.
Very similar to where the banking industry was forced to give out house loans to inner city deadbeats because "redlining".
The Texas power people were just being forced to use technology where this could happen - just another bad choice in an array of bad choices forced on them by the Green Lucy Van Pelts.
I agree with you, teeman8r - it doesn't let the unreliability of unicorn farts off the hook.
I try to advocate for Gen IV reactors whenever possible.
For transparency, I do electrical distribution design so it doesn’t matter the generation source for me. Lines in the air, and cables in the ground...