> Nuclear power plants are money printing machines, not money pits.

This is a point on which nuclear advocates and the nuclear industry disagree.

I wonder which understands the economics of the situation better?

So... 20 years to payoff assuming zero maintenance costs, downtime, or competing technical innovations. Sign me up.

20 years, or even 50 years, in the context of critical infrastructure and state level debt obligations is not that long. Nor is it sensible to consider “competing technical innovations” as if, say, solar and nuclear were mutually exclusive technologies. California can and should build both, now, and not wait for some other technology or price point to come and save us.

You can’t breath money.