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Oh yes it is delivering. More than you can imagine.

IMHO, nuclear is not delivering only because of new compliance requirements and nimbysm.

There is that but there are also massive budget and schedule overruns that lead into lots of risk and interest payment expenses.

Not to say that the whole industry does not benefit from learning curves. Solar and wind have had massive cost reductions that come from learning curves and standardization.

This is something that we already have done in the past, just look at France. Nobody knows if we can build a robust decentralized energy production, storage and distribution system.