> solar plus batteries is far cheaper than nuclear power

Grid-scale solar plus batteries is cheaper? Citation needed.

No worries: https://www.csiro.au/en/news/all/news/2025/july/2024-25-genc...

Energy costs, of course, vary by location - so that linked report is the Australian national science (both theory and very much applied) body determining that conditions in Australia are such that the economics of nuclear power here have costs greater than that of grid scale solar + batteries + other storage technologies on horizon and being firmed up.