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Both wind and solar have deployed faster than nuclear ever did globally.

And that's in Wh terms, you specify capacity but I guess you'd be annoyed if I replied that renewables beat that capacity easily, like China deploying 80GW of wind just last year.

Here's an article looking at per capita increases show that France and Sweden did really well but renewables are accelerating past their records:

https://www.sustainabilitybynumbers.com/p/solar-wind-nuclear...

The growth of renewables in France (!) over the last five years matches the best periods of nuclear rollout in Japan and the USA.



except nuclear was prevented from growing by governments so let's not talk about how one grows faster than another


It's all part of the problem that has to be solved. You can't pretend that nuclear is better technically and that is the end of the story. As long as governments regulate and as long as people motivate governments to slow-roll more nuclear, nuclear generation will have a serious competitive disadvantage.

That disadvantage will manifest as cost and slow growth, among other objective measures.


It's never succeeded without government backing. Most of the early reactors co-evolved with weapons programmes.




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