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Well there is no way renewable power alone is going to be able to power the future with tons of people driving electric vehicles.

Solar works only during the day and wind mostly works during the day, then people are going to charge their cars mostly in the evening and at night?
Not going to work.

We are not decommissioning much of anything.
Just a few years ago Palo verde nuclear power station got their NRC license extended to at least 2046 and this year the anti nuclear useful idiots in AZ put out a referendum to close Palo verde.
It was slaughtered 70% nay to 30% in favor.
It was an epic loss for the anti nuclear ignoramuses.

It looks like the global warming movement is going pro nuclear, try to keep up.

We don't have gen 4 nuclear reactors because no one wants to fund them.
The trump administration just appropriated a few million dollars for thorium reactor research split between 4 different firms. That's the first federal money spent on thorium power in decades.
To compare, in the 1940s we spent the equivalent of 2 trillion of today's dollars developing nuclear weapons and reactors. At the hight of it all 80% of engineers in the country were involved with the nuclear power and weapons programs.
Thorium gets a mist droplet or 2 in the bucket compared to what built the current nuclear systems.

There is only at least a hundred or so years of thorium stock piled by the US and mostly china. There is at least 1,000 years in the ground that could be mined, maybe another 1,000 years worth in sea water and we can get another 1,000 years worth if it's saved from rare earth element refining and coal fly ash.
By then maybe fission will be figured out.
If it will last a few thousand years why does it have to be renewable?