Comment by hi-v-rocknroll

I worked for a consultancy of ex-GE NE folks in the 90's. This is too little, too late. Renewables are so much cheaper and profitable to deploy, and PES and battery including v2g are ripe to backfill transient slack. Getting insurance and NRC licensing are blockers for any new nuclear project making it virtually impossible to build any new plant and this doesn't even consider local NIMBY or permanent waste storage concerns. Duke Energy can barely get 1 project off the ground. Consequently, the idea of new nuclear plants is a pipe dream that is only getting more distant. The economics aren't there, and there's no rational reason to religiously fetishize one type of power generation technology when others are cheaper, safer, and faster to deploy.