The Trump administration has secretly rewritten nuclear safety rules

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21. It's an accounting trick. Or a damnable lie.

These figures don't account for the dismal capacity factors of wind and solar power and the expensive measures required to deal with that, which usually include fossil fueled "backup power."

If a power network scrimps on the infrastructure required to integrate solar and wind power into it's system it can result in system instabilities that cause large blackouts like the one that occurred on the Iberian Peninsula in April 2025.

One of the fundamental conflicts between nuclear advocates and advocates for solar and wind power is often unspoken. In a complete build-out of nuclear power, one large enough to displace fossil fuels, we also displace solar and wind power.