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Nuclear is needed for base load, not for all electricity needs.

Nuclear is the most cost effective way to achieve base load.

Neither of these statements is true.

You mathed wrong. You would need a little over 200, but no one is suggesting powering the whole grid with nuclear.

and no one suggested we run the entire grid on PV/batteries, except you.

Vogtle will be cancelled before completion. That many $billions for 2GW is nothing short of pathetic.

It cannot be cancelled soon enough.

I doubt that. It's too close to completion, sadly for the ratepayers in Georgia.

I guess they can mothball it afterward.

Why should they? The state utility regulators approved it, so it's going into the rate base. That's not a competitive electricity market down there in the Southeast.

They could disapprove it. Maybe elect better government, first?