I heard that Ken Bone was polling better than Stein in Florida, 4% vs 1% and that is amazing.
best immediate option
I'm sorry, you were talking about nuclear, the only power source where you have to plan in decades, and then you started talking about "immediate option". What is this immediate option you are talking about?
Immediate option as in "one which should have been pushed for since people started realizing dependency on fossil-fuels was a mistake" but it could also be a much shorter process if it wasn't for all the ridiculous NIMBY legal hoops to jump through.
Building coal and natural gas plants takes time, but the legal minefield is much easier to navigate.
I wasn't assuming fusion plants, they're still too far out for a baseload system, but using nuclear to provide on-demand and put extra capacity into storage/distribution mechanisms with local assistance from solar seems like a good long term plan.
I wish people had spent more time pushing it as "radioisotope powered steam generation" or "hot rocks boiling water" instead of letting the "ZOMG IT IS NUCLEAR, THAT MEANS BOMBS" people win out by trying to be reasonable and fight with facts.
Modern plant designs exist which
can recycle waste, plants exist which could be planned and built in much less time, talking
5 to 7 years to get them built and ready to start running, but you have to go through ridiculous steps to get a single plant built, and it winds up being extremely outdated by that point. The first few reactors of a given design cost more, building them out more reduces the costs, but people have been fighting it so long on this moral crusade that it just doesn't happen.