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You must be young? You do remember when France is 85% Nuclear and they built out their entire national infrastructure very quickly. Or as part of 'cultural memo
by jollybean 5y ago
You must be young? You do remember when France is 85% Nuclear and they built out their entire national infrastructure very quickly. Or as part of 'cultural memory'? I'm too young, but I remember people talking about it.
We could literally build those identical, 1960's style designs if we absolutely had to.
Of course, we'd build something a little more modern, even just a little more modern Canadian CANDU reactors would work.
We take forever to build them for organizational reasons, not because there's something that's inherently difficult that takes 30 years to do.
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_power_in_France https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_power_in_France
- tuatoru 5y ago> You must be young? I wish. > You do remember when France is 85% Nuclear and they built out their entire national infrastructure very quickly. No, I don't remember it; I was a long way away and young. I still don't speak French. Yes, it's a bit sad that we can no longer do what a bunch of French bureaucrats with their 30-hour work weeks and 8-week vacances could do in the 1970s--even when we're desperate.
- jollybean 5y agoWe could do it immediately. We could literally copy their not-very-good designs if we had to. Those plants are still effective and operational and provide a major economy with 85% (!!!) of their electricity. They build them quickly and it's worked out fine.