Last I checked Exelon and Entergy said they lost a considerable amount of money on various nuclear plants. If anyone can give numbers to refute them I would say I am wrong but I know that aint coming
they do lose money, the politics of the regulatory burden and the subsidy cabals are stacked against them,...
so, it is a struggle for most of them to be viable,...
but that is an American political burden, not an inherent weakness of the technology or the market,...
nuke capacity in China, India, Scandinavia, France, etcetera, etcetera, etcetera, is holding it's own or rapidly expanding within an energy policy of baseload power capacity,....
it seems America expects the "smart grid" to hold all the answers before the smart grid has been proven to be able to meet the grid at full capacity at all times,...
my personal thoughts are why burn natural gas in power plants when natural gas reserves could power our current transportation technology for 200+ years with complete energy independence from foreign sources,...
instead we'll burn it off within 2 generations to push electrons, when there are other energy sources to push electrons which are not amenable to transportation uses,...
I see short sighted stupidity endorsed by PC policy wonks,...
I do not see energy policy, only shell games moving taxpayer money around to the friends and family club of the moment,...