Seeing as you asked . l'll let the facts sort out whose stupid.
l note that you haven't provided a link to your claims . Therefore most people might think that you've got something to hide.
Anyway ....supposedly " 19 of the top 20 advanced economies have nuclear except Australia? "
Fact check:
Dutton’s claim about G20 nuclear energy use doesn’t add up
https://www.aap.com.au/factcheck/duttons-claim-about-g20-nuclear-energy-use-doesnt-add-up/But of course nuclear has and is being used around the world . That's true .
But...................
All those countries that , unlike Australia , that have long established nuclear industries are investing heavily in renewables . Countries that have had nuclear power for 50 years are spending huge amounts on new renewable systems and getting out of nuclear. Globally , the spend on renewables is dwarfing the nuclear spend.
" Despite the positive developments in nuclear energy, 2023 ended with one piece of negative news:
Spain has announced the planned closure of all seven of its nuclear power plants. It intends to start the decommissioning phase in 2027, and all the ‘nukes’ should be taken off the grid by 2035. Spain is thus the latest country to announce its intention to end the use of fission energy. Germany
closed all its nuclear power plants in April 2023. "
https://www.adaptinstitute.org/spain-announces-a-plan-to-shut-down-its-nuclear-power-plants-will-nuclear-still-see-a-renaissance-in-europe/29/01/2024/Then there's China ......
For a decade I’ve been tracking the exponential expansion of wind, solar, and to a lesser extent hydro electricity generation in China, mostly against nuclear generation’s much flatter growth trajectory. In recent years I’ve been looking at other aspects of generation, in part because of the regular refrain of delayers and deniers who use “But China…!” in every other argument.
Additions of TWh of new generation each year in China with nuclear compared to wind, water, and solar, chart by Michael Barnard, Chief Strategist, TFIE Strategy Inc.
This chart is the increase in TWh of new generation — not capacity, but actual generation adjusted for capacity factors of different forms of generation — as experienced in China since 2010. For this series, I chose 2010 as a start date because the wind, solar, and nuclear programs were mature enough that starting pains should have been in the past. The nuclear program was about 15 years old at the time and the wind and solar programs were about five years old.
https://cleantechnica.com/2024/03/01/usa-china-electricity-generation-twh-co2e-trajectories-since-2000-are-startling/The world is on track to add 593 GW of solar power this year
Ember estimates that at the current rate of additions, the world will install 593 GW of solar panels this year. That’s 29% more than was installed last year, maintaining strong growth even after an estimated 87% surge in 2023. In 2024, an estimated 292 GW of solar capacity was installed by the end of July.
https://ember-climate.org/insights/in-brief/solar-power-continues-to-surge-in-2024/
