cost nuclear is significantly more expensive then renewables. For the US and this project is was 30 times more per MW.
it takes about a decade to built a single plant, with cost overruns being common
single plants are so expensive that they can only be built with government support
total certralization of production, so basicly only big companies and governments
nuclear is baseload althou the production can be varied it is hard to turn off a plant quickly and turn it back on again
very real dangour of terrorist attacks
huge failure points in the grid, if you have a problem. Since they produce as much as they do, it causes huge problems, if they do not work properly for any sort of reason and there are a lot of them.
Important to mention the downsides as well, so I thought I help out a bit.
To put down the bad site of things:
Important to mention the downsides as well, so I thought I help out a bit.