The position
Nuclear energy is the answer to climate change
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Counteraxiom argues against
Nuclear has three problems renewables don't: cost, time, and politics. New reactors in Western democracies routinely overrun their budgets by 2-5× and slip their timelines by a decade. By the time a plant breaking ground today is producing electricity, solar plus storage will be cheaper per kilowatt-hour by a margin that won't reverse.
The argument that we need nuclear because renewables are intermittent assumed grid-scale storage couldn't scale. That assumption is now obsolete. Lithium iron phosphate, sodium-ion, and four-hour-plus storage technologies are in production at prices that were considered impossible five years ago. The intermittency argument is a 2015 argument fighting a 2030 grid.
Nuclear is a serious technology for specific use cases — naval propulsion, isolated grids, very high industrial heat. As a backbone for decarbonisation, it's a 1970s solution that the economics no longer support.
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