Comment by danlitt
15 hours ago
It could have been replaced by almost anything, there is nothing particularly special about nuclear in this context (except its extremely high price).
15 hours ago
It could have been replaced by almost anything, there is nothing particularly special about nuclear in this context (except its extremely high price).
Coal and nuclear are both dispatchable electricity sources. It is much easier to replace a dispatchable source with another dispatchable source.