>The ones from fifty years ago are great, imagine what we could do if the fucking NRC stopped adding such incredibly dumb and onerous requirements on any new permits for new tech.

I'm in France, where we should get ~78% of our electricity from nuclear. But half the reactors are down partly due to issues with the old reactors and maintenance problem (planned or not). https://nuclear-monitor.fr/#/mix

So electricity is crazy expensive and the government just hold an emergency meetings (minutes ago) to try to find a solution before the winter. Some manufacturers (esp in the glass business) might go bankrupt as they cannot turn of their plants…

I wish I could install solar panel on my roof (but I'm in Paris and the building is shared among by many owners so it isn't easy to get them on board).