Your case is strong, but there is room for the base-load stability of nuclear - under the correct controls, which is to say, just like all other technical endeavors. 20% of power generated might be about right for, say, the next 40 years, while we get the solar-based technologies fully deployed and establish a sustainability ethic in the world.

You don't want Italy to run a nuclear-based generation plant, and you may have a case there, too. I don't have firsthand experience, but it seems that France has a fairly good system. Seems, also, that recycling of the 'spent' fuel is the obvious field for further R&D.

paul spencer