Do you think that the organizations that couldn't bother to take into account a 1 in 20 winter would build safe and secure nuclear?
Also consider the amount of battery storage arriving onto the Texas grid in the next few years. If that would have been commissioned already, reconnecting neighbourhoods would have been much easier.
I don't need to think. Somebody provided several PWh - PWh - of energy with, in the US, simply no accidents worth worrying about, and on global scale still none that compare to the damage fossils have done.
That's not a hypothetical. It already happened.
I really, really aggressively don't care what grid storage salesmen claim. Put up a plan for the TWhs needed to cover a cold windless snap and we'll talk.
Also consider the amount of battery storage arriving onto the Texas grid in the next few years. If that would have been commissioned already, reconnecting neighbourhoods would have been much easier.