Accelerate the World's Transition to Sustainable Energy - to fight Anthropogenic Climate Change, page-38861

did you maybe look and see how long it takes to turn on and off a nuclear power plant?

So how long does it take to tun on a solar farm when there is no sun or a wind farm when there is not wind?

A nuclear reactor seems much easier:


It takes an experienced shift operator and supervisor approximately 6 hours to perform all the necessary valving, system checks and scram checks, and another 1-2 hours to withdraw the control blades to the critical bank height and raise power to the desired operating power level. If the reactor was operated within the last 24 hours then it can be restarted in less than 2 hours. It takes less than 1 second to shut down the reactor and another hour to perform the normal shutdown valving and checks.

No need for wind and solar for a reactor to operate either.

The reactor is refuelled approximately every 3-4 months, but not all the fuel is replaced at once. Usually 2-3 new fuel elements are installed, 2-3 old elements are removed and the remaining elements are shuffled. The shape of our fuel elements allows them to be rotated 180 degrees and flipped upside-down during refuelling in order to get the most out of each element before it is discharged.

https://nrl.mit.edu/about/faq#:~:text=In%20order%20to%20start%20up,desired%20reactor%20power%20is%20reached.