Nuclear is the future.
It is desirable to have an energy mix.The old ‘don’t put all your eggs in one basket’ philosophy. Coal plants, and especially nuclear plants traditionally produce a greater amount of watts.
It is not so much the number of plants but the percentage of the nation’s power each source provides.
Building new plants from planning to going ‘on line’ take a considerable length of time.
Better not to be caught short in the event electric is needed.
Why coddle the RATs? They hate it, they should get what they ask for; the RAT-cities need to go dark.
There are other (not necessarily new) nuclear technologies that need to be developed and implemented; thorium reactors, re-constituted fuel rods etc. Otherwise, we don't need another freaking Fukishima.
I agree
What I wonder is why there s not cevelopment of small nuclear generating plants rather than the very large regulation damaged large plants.
I worked many years off and on on the constrution of large nuclear plants and witnessed the destruction by a thousand cuts.