The Reality Is that the Market Has Said “No” to Nuclear and "Yes” to Renewables

... constructing and prolonging the life of current nuclear plants is enormously costly. New construction is eye-wateringly expensive, which means that if we continue to build nuclear plants, we have much less resource, money, to put into the real solution to climate change, which is renewable power, demand-side management, and storage. What are the advantages of solar and wind power? A recent report by Standard and Poor, the key market analyst, found that renewable energy technology global investment has been running at about 350 billion dollars per year for the last few years. But for nuclear, it fell to about 17 billion for last year. Andrey Kortunov: Europe’s Greens as Future Strategic Partners of ...