This is spot on. The economics is what really kills nuclear. The cost to build and operate a plant vs the revenue you get out of it won’t break even until 25/30 years. Compare that to a natural gas plant that’ll be profitable in ~5 years.

You’d think this is the kind of thing where governments would step in with subsidies, but that gets halted due to oil and gas lobbyists.

Samantha Carter Stargate series

This doesn’t have a section for energy storage, which is exploding right now as well. That’s a big part of the story that makes this good news even better.