Bob, Nuclear Power is definitely going to be the most reasonable, feasible and cost-effective solution to displacing ‘Baseload’ Coal Power and eventually significant Natural Gas Power in the foreseeable future.  Those Climate Change Supporters who generally/only support building massive amounts of variable Wind & Solar Power, most often assume that Power Storage from Industrial scale batteries will soon be the ultimate solution to displacing Baseload Hydrocarbon (fueled) Power Generation.  They basically assume that Lithium batteries’ technologies will continue to become cheaper in the future as has been experienced with Automobiles and Computer/Phone batteries Markets over the past decade or two.  Unfortunately, with the rapid expansion of BEV’s, as most Developed Countries are projecting/planning, the huge increased demand for Lithium batteries will soon become the next World major supply shortage crisis in the future.  This will likely create a major constraint on replacing Hydrocarbon Power Generation supplies in the next couple decades with variable Wind & Solar Power generation; in both distributed and centralized designed Power Systems.  Assuming, of course, that Power Grids will be reliable for all Consumers.  This shortage/constraint in Li metals and batteries’ supplies will put a relatively quick end to reduced cost batteries supplies, and, make Nuclear Power rapidly the most cost effective ‘zero carbon’ Power Supplies option in the future.

Unfortunately, these supply-demand-cost factors will not likely influence the Biden Administration to make formal commitments to supporting and reasonably regulating increased Nuclear Power capacity in the foreseeable future.  Hopefully, someday the Federal Government and Regulators will adopt common sense and do reasonably accurate ‘costs-and-benefits’ analyses, the most accurate/reasonable ‘Science/Evaluations’ should deliver.  This, of course, is based on classic ‘Scientific Method in Practice’, as I and I am sure you, learned in College and practiced during our Professional-Technical Careers ever since.