Replacing coal fired plants would be foolish.
Coal fired plants can be used for load following (changing power output for changing grid loading).
Replacing aging Nuk Plants and adding plants for increased load on the grid is what we need.
There are about 100 operational Nuk plants today.
most of them are 40 years old. That is their design bases life.
Most them are applying for 20 year life extensions or already have them.
So, just to maintain the status quo I would say we need another 100 Nuk plants.
Thank you.
I like the idea.
Keep everything we have that is functionable and add 100 new nuclear plants plus sufficient breeder reactors plants to reprocess spent fuel for all. Harden the grid against EMP.
Add natural gas and htdro for more redundancy and back up.
A lot of them will expire in 2040. And it will be time to build new reactors. But the political will won't be there.