Particularly if SMRs are the way forward. So far they're even more expensive per GW than traditional nuclear plants. Theoretically with mass production they could be made more efficiently, but that's far from a given. Nuclear energy has shown a negative learning rate over the last 50 years as traditional nuclear plants have just gotten more and more expensive to build. And smaller plants were generally more expensive to build and run relative to the energy they produced vs. larger ones (i.e. a 1 GW plant doesn't necessarily need 3x the workers and capital costs compared a 330 MW plant).
Nuclear has some real advantages over the alternatives, but cost isn't one of them.
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