For this to actually happen, it’s going to require a major drop in the cost of nuclear power. To some extent, pushing nothing-but-nuclear has been a fossil fuel industry strategy because those high costs and long lead times mean that it’s not actually getting built.

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      1 year ago

      It’s OK - any promise with “by 2050” at the end of it means “We promise that, while we will procrastinate and do nothing about this, our successors definitely won’t do the same.”