So if a prudent choice weighs all the important factors, those factors should be identified. Here's an article by the Head of the Department of Nuclear Science and Engineering at MIT in which he identifies and weighs them.
One of the factors that should be considered is economic growth. U.S. carbon emissions have been going down, but more than half of that is because there has been a reduction in business activity (recession).
The author mentions nuclear power can be built up quickly compared to solar and wind:
"The ability to scale up low-carbon energy sources rapidly is absolutely crucial if we’re to have any chance of meeting the carbon reduction targets. There’s a popular view that we can build out wind and solar very quickly. But, historically, it’s nuclear energy that has scaled up the fastest."
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