i’m a big nuclear fan, but this is a dangerous argument to make without acknowledging how power systems actually behave. We don’t have an energy problem; we have a power problem. Across many parts of the U.S., wholesale electricity prices already go negative during sunny/windy periods. CA alone curtailed over 3.4 TWh of generation in 2024 — meaning that even at $0, there were no buyers. That’s a grid and utilization constraint. Look at France in 2022: despite nuclear supplying ~65% of its electricity, fleet-wide maintenance issues forced the country to import power at the exact moment Europe needed exports. An impressive fleet is great but systemic risk is real. Also, they typically don't operate at a high capacity factor (70%) and France's retail rates are nearly 2x than most places in USA (generally, america's reactors are the best operated in the world with the highest capacity factor at 90-95%.) Power markets are incredibly complex, and the solution is almost never “just build a ton of X.” Cheap generation doesn’t automatically translate to cheaper retail rates; in some cases it drives higher system costs by increasing the need for transmission, balancing reserves, or backup capacity. The same is true for "baseload": a 1 GW nuclear plant only makes sense if you can run it close to 24/7 given the daily and seasonal load profile of that zone. You don’t want a billion-dollar asset sitting underutilized 25% of the time. Colocated or behind-the-meter power for projects of this scale is still TBD afaik — most DCs still want a grid connection for reliability. Flexible loads is an interesting trend, but I digress. If there is a path to “too cheap to meter,” it probably won’t come from any single generation source — it will come from dramatically increasing system utilization. That almost certainly means batteries everywhere, shifting surplus energy across time, smoothing volatility, and letting the grid actually absorb the low-cost power we already know how to produce. Generation matters but power, not a bucket of energy, is the real bottleneck. It's moving it that matters most,