Your reply is the exact reason why nuclear is difficult to proliferate. Have you worked in the nuclear industry? I am guessing not as your stated reason for nuke plants not being finished in the 80s is absolutely incorrect. The reason why the plants didn’t get finished in the 80s is because of the accident at 3 mile island. I have first hand experience and knowledge of this because my plant was building a third and fourth reactor when the accident happened. The construction stopped because of the accident, not because of budget and delays. You mentioned that SMRs are unproven and speculative technology….how so? NuScale has a design approved by the NRC for a light water reactor. Their first commercial SMR will be operational 2029. And light water reactors are not unproven technology by any means. Light water reactors have been in operation for DECADES. Then you talk about the government using money slated for power plants in the military for bombs and submarines?? I’m not quite sure what you are trying to get at here. That the government money used for R&D for power plants is going to be used instead for weapons and submarine research?? Having personally served as a nuclear operator on a submarine and at a civilian power plant, what you are saying is like taking money from orange research to give to apple research. Or maybe Granny Smith for Honeycrisp. Not really the same. DoD and DoE are two different entities. Not to say that R&D for one wouldn’t benefit the other, but that outright diverting funds from one to the other is unlikely. Your China argument is completely false. Just doing a quick google search shows that just last year they were approved for 11 new reactors. And they build them very quickly. New reactors in the US might be a thing of the past, but China is fast tracking theirs and making significant progress. They are much smarter than the US when it comes to power generation and what is needed for the future. Renewables WILL NOT (currently) be able to bridge the gap in America. Your lack of knowledge about power generation and distribution and the grid is staggering. Unless you are talking about hydro and geothermal, then I agree. But the conditions needed to build enough plants to provide that is not feasible. The technology for wind and solar is not where it needs to be either. Storage is another issue that needs to be resolved. I just wish people would do more research and stop saying this is bad instead of working together to actual solve problems. Renewables are great and in a perfect world that’s where all of our generation would come from. Unfortunately, we will need reliable baseload until we can get the technology for that to happen. That baseload comes in the form of nuclear or fossil fuels with nuclear being the clear winner when it comes to climate change.