The University of Michigan has published a study assessing the potential for a total coal to nuclear transition in the US and concluded that it’s mostly feasible to do so. Rethink Energy looked at some hard numbers to try and estimate how much this would cost and the result is eye-watering. Over half a trillion in what might be the best assumed scenario, cost-wise. The more complicated reality is that, in any case, it can’t do it within the timeline for decommissioning coal. The study looked at socioeconomic factors, safety, and proximity parameters and assessed coal plants by capacity in order to match them with the right class of advanced nuclear reactors such as microreactors, medium-scale reactors (MSRs), and small…