"We’ve been building and operating pumped hydro since 1907, most of the legacy facilities were built to give nuclear and coal plants something to do at night and to bridge their poor flexibility during the day"
"For context, while pumped hydro has long tailed risks, with tunneling being at exactly the half-way point on Professor Bent Flyvbjerg’s categorization of over 16,000 megaprojects ranked by running over budget, it’s still much lower risk than building nuclear plants."
"As I recently pointed out, China only managed to connect 1.2 GW of nuclear generation capacity to the grid in all of 2023, as its nuclear program continues to face strong and apparently self-created headwinds."
It's unclear what article you read, but nuclear is called out multiple times including a link to even China's failure to scale it compared to wind and solar.
