I don't have time to write a super-long comment but as someone who has spent hundreds of hours on this question and turned from an anti-nuclear activist to a pro-nuclear funder, I do want to quickly point out that this post does contain a fair amount of errors / statements outside the relevant context.
1. Nuclear being overfunded compared to renewables: R&D budgets are one thing, but overall support is another. In the early 2000s, the world has spent hundreds of billions of dollars every year driving down the cost of renewables, while the last comparable effort to make nuclear cheap in the West was probably 1970s-1980s France. 2-3B USD in R&D funding... (read more)
I don't have time to write a super-long comment but as someone who has spent hundreds of hours on this question and turned from an anti-nuclear activist to a pro-nuclear funder, I do want to quickly point out that this post does contain a fair amount of errors / statements outside the relevant context.
1. Nuclear being overfunded compared to renewables: R&D budgets are one thing, but overall support is another. In the early 2000s, the world has spent hundreds of billions of dollars every year driving down the cost of renewables, while the last comparable effort to make nuclear cheap in the West was probably 1970s-1980s France. 2-3B USD in R&D funding... (read more)