> Hideously expensive and any plant announced today will not be online in time to have any material effect on our fight against climate change

False, we have 26 years to decarbonize, all the time it takes to build any number of nuclear power plants in any country in the world.

> Which means funding diverted from renewables to nuclear will prolong our fight against climate change.

We can say the same thing about renewables. Then come and tell me you are not ideological... Where is the mathematical certainty that batteries at scale will be available everywhere and for everyone by 2050? If you come from the future, prove it to me and I will agree with you.