Nuclear is less expensive and more scalable than solar, wind, hydro.

It does not boil the planet like fossil fuels.

Yes it takes time and money to set up, but that’s a short term cost.

This is assumed to be widely known, so critical questions that don’t take that into account are assumed to be either in bad faith or laziness.

“Thorny problem of waste disposal” is such a shitty phrase. The alternatives of coal and oil have more damaging waste disposed straight out into the atmosphere. We just don’t demand shit from those industries, while nuclear needs to be beyond perfect to be an alternative.