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Nuclear already is the expensive alternative. Just in the beginning of Nov, NuScale Power terminated its much hyped SMR projects in Utah [1]. Target price for these was $89 per megawatt hour. Wind and solar are what, ~$25/MWh currently?

[1] https://www.reuters.com/business/energy/nuscale-power-uamps-...

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Note that the target price (which probably wasn't going to be achieved) also involved about $30/MWh of federal subsidies, and the target assumed 40-50 reactor modules being built (it was not the price for those first six modules for CFPP).

It was clear what was going to happen after they announced the price increase late in 2022/early 2023. NuScale carefully stopped making positive statements that could get them personally sued and the executives started unloading their stock.

Is that including storage? Renewables at unusable at scale without it, since they're intermittent sources. Also France has ~$50/MWh nuclear power.

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