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Something that can turn on or off at a moments notice? Bitcoin mining is perfect and even subsidises the production costs :)

fuel synthesis

Excess power is most usefully applied capturing CO2 and desalinating water. But nukes' operating cost is too high for that. Spending a single year's operating cost on solar, and then using solar to do that work,leaves you with all subsequent years' opex available to use building out more solar.