How exactly do solar and wind waste more money than they generate? There is hardly anything that requires less maintenance. I put panels on my roof and just forget about them for 20 years. No space wasted, no maintenance.

Compare that to a nuclear power plant. How long does it take to build one? France is building new ones for I don't know, 5 or ten years? And once it's built, how much land does a NPP require? How much staffing and maintenance? They have massive cooling requirements so they always need to be built close to water. Did you know that France had to power down about half their NPPs in the summer because the rivers didn't carry enough water? You say that solar is toxic as hell, then what is nuclear? What exactly is the plan with waste? Bury it somewhere really really deep and keep fingers crossed for thousands of years that it doesn't contaminate ground water? And what's with all the irradiated parts of the plant itself? How can you recycle them?

Any way you cut it, nuclear is a grandiose, but extremely risky and costly technology.