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Nuclear power and renewable energy have different and incommensurate reliability problems: renewable power stops for minutes or hours when the weather shifts; nuclear plants can go offline for months when a design flaw is discovered.
Nuclear power and renewable energy have different and incommensurate reliability problems: renewable power stops for minutes or hours when the weather shifts; nuclear plants can go offline for months when a design flaw is discovered.
Build a thousand windmills across a state and you reduce reduce the intermittency to almost zero.
Build fifty identical nuclear plants across a country and you might have to shut them all down in the same year. Ask Japan.