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Would it though? What's the lead time on training nuclear engineers, construction companies etc to start building reactors again. UK and European projects have

• ailideex 7y ago
  > I mean maybe US, Europe and China can do this but can the rest of the world? South Africa has problems getting conventional coal plants up and running [1][2] [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Medupi_Power_Station#Delays_and_defects https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Medupi_Power_Station#Delays_an... [2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kusile_Power_Station#Delays_and_defects https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kusile_Power_Station#Delays_an... And there is no real interest in mass roll out of solar and wind in South Africa - people would just be all to happy to get some reliability in electricity supply. So sure, the rest of the world will have problems - with nuclear and just about anything else. The problem still remains that energy storage is not a solved problem and wind and solar can maybe generate enough electricity but not in right places and not at the right times.