alt Hacker NewsYou need to overprovision solar and wind capacity by at minimum 5x for northern latitudes' winter months compared to the summer, plus another few multipliers to keep storage topped up, or invest heavily in HVDC and massively overprovision the southern states.
For that scenario, nuclear is still marginally cheaper (at today's prices at least).
Northern latitudes have low population density and plenty of hydro power which, unlike nuclear power, CAN actually operate as a battery at a reasonable cost.
There is still nowhere in the world nuclear power makes economic sense.