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I'll bet that no new nuclear plants will be built in my lifetime nor in my children's lifetimes.

So strange you're downvoted when you're correct. Why spend billions on a nuclear plant that'll take a decade to build when you can deploy solar, wind, and battery storage at a lower cost and a tenth the time?

The economics simply do not work for nuclear, and I'd expect all nuclear generators in the US decommissioned by 2030.

It's not strange to see downvotes, IMO. Industry spends a tremendous amount of money and resources attacking our more sustainable energy future with rampant FUD. They want to milk their current infrastructure for as long as it's profitable for them.

Sowing Fear, Uncertainty and Doubt about alternative, more sustainable energy sources (and storage) has gone on for decades and has had a very pervasive, toxic effect on general discourse of the matters.

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