Are you willing to store spent fuel in your backyard?

Wind and Solar are cheaper and safer.

It takes AT LEAST FIFTEEN YEARS to recoup the cost of building a nuclear power plant.

Germany is at the forefront of solar power.  (surprising given their climate)

“Thirty years from now, is ExxonMobil going to be in the solar energy business?”

“I think that they’ll either be in the solar energy business or they won’t be in business"

A) No they are not cheaper

B) Wind and Solar are great... when the wind is blowing, the sun is shining... and there is room.  Where praytell is England going to find the massive room needed for solar and wind farms in England?  What are they going to do when the wind isn't blowing and it's overcast?

C) Wind and Solar are nowhere near the level of efficency to work huge power grids by themselves, and even if they did they need backup systems... and they won't be able to work everywhere because you need very specific conditions to drop down windfarms or solar farms.  Using Solar is going to end up burning more fossil fuels then Nuclear will in the long run.

You know... for the rest of the quote you cherry picked.

it won’t be all of their business by far. We’ll still be using oil, we’ll still be using gas, we’ll still be using coal. But we’ll be using those at far diminished levels than we are today.”

By far?  So... what... 50% fossil fuels... at least?

Ok, are you willing to store spent nuclear fuel under your bed?  In your car boot? in your backyard?

Didn't think so.

When someone comes up with a reasonable way to dispose of nuclear waste AND makes building the plants cost effective, THEN I will accept it as a viable alternative.

We're already drilling and putting the waste under ground. No problems at all.

And of course nuclear energy is cost effective, or else it wouldn't be widespread all over the world since 50 years back, with new plants being built all over the place.

I'm sorry, but have you been brain washed by some anti-nuclear committee or something? 

How about power from nuclear fusion, so you think that's a bad idea too?

Are you willing to have a prison for muderers built in your backyard?

No?

Then clearly prisons and laws that put people in jail aren't good by your logic.

Sorry I want to go with the only reasonable clean energy source out there.

Wind only works for countries like the US with lots of open land... and even then only some states.

And Solar really only works for individual families who can put solar panels on their house for their own use while they draw off a "Baseload" supply.

Solar really would only work well in conjuction with Nuclear Power, Natural Gas Power or Oil Power.  With the baseload actually providing more of the power.

I'm late to the party.

@Kasz: solar works brilliantly in large sites, just look at Nevada Solar One, and the desert Southwest provides enough flat, undeveloped, and sunny lands to provide electricity to power the whole USA - of course, you'd have issues with getting the power around the states, but the ability to generate it is there.

A) Where in the UK exists anything like Nevada?

A huge wideopen space where there is basically no cloud coverage.

Nevada is to solar power what Victoria falls is to hydro electric power.

B) Solar storage isn't near advanced enough to "Power the entire US."   In fact Solar Nevada 1 isn't even a base energy source.

Why?  We don't have the technology to store solar energy for 16 hours.  Let alone if it'sone of those rare overcast days in Nevada. (Yes they happen here.)  Right now all that energy used to power the Las Vegas strip and other areas at night is made elsewhere.

Such a plant could produce enough energy to power the entire USA... but most of that power couldn't actually be used and would just die away.

Once it gets dark, or even just kinda cloudy... Solar 1 is useless.

There is a reason afterall Solar 1 is build right by the Hoover Dam.

C) This is why Solar works best in small sites.  It's not seen as a "MUST HAVE" source but instead a bonus source of cheap free energy for those who have it installed, and in the right countries like the US... you can actually "Sell" your excess energy.