Nuclear power is unreliable

[FBaggins]

1. Except compared to everything else of course

This notion that anything short of 100% reliable is equally "unreliable" is one of the more ridiculous claims.

All forms of electricity generation have some level of failure (http://www.nrel.gov/docs/fy13osti/59111.pdf). The knock on variable renewables isn't that they lack 100% reliability... it's that they can't be counted on even when they're 100% operational.

while production of wind and solar power fluctuate (to use the German term), giant amounts of renewable generation capacity do not simultaneously go off-line.


As you should know... Those same Germans hit a reportedly record high in solar/wind generation a few days back (~46.5 GWs)... but in the same 24-hr period also fell to less than 1.7GW. I can't wait for the interesting spin re: how that isn't "giant amounts" that are "simultaneously off-line"