Reply #3: Nuclear plants have the highest capacity utilization and the lowest external cost of any form [View All]

[NNadir]

of exajoule scale energy.

They are cleaner, safer and more reliable than any other form of exajoule scale form of energy.

In fact, the only reason that solar's external cost is missed is because solar is, was, and probably will be for the next 50 years, a trivial form of energy.

If you want to know what the external cost of solar plants would be if solar were not a trivial form of energy, here's a picture: