«The tides are turning in favor of nuclear energy»
in their dreams...
PV costs are falling exponentially (-10% per year) while nuclear costs remain at best constant. If you decide today to build a reactor it will be ready in 10-20 years (don't be in the hurry). By the time it start producing it will be competing with plenty of cheaper renewables. During its lifetime (50 years) it will have plenty of time to become obsolete and so expensive.
It's like buying a Cray I in the 1980s and get delivered in 2000 just to find that a gaming console has more power than your mammoth computer but at a fraction of the cost.
in their dreams...
PV costs are falling exponentially (-10% per year) while nuclear costs remain at best constant. If you decide today to build a reactor it will be ready in 10-20 years (don't be in the hurry). By the time it start producing it will be competing with plenty of cheaper renewables. During its lifetime (50 years) it will have plenty of time to become obsolete and so expensive.
It's like buying a Cray I in the 1980s and get delivered in 2000 just to find that a gaming console has more power than your mammoth computer but at a fraction of the cost.
Nuclear is completely doomed.