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> - Nuclear plants take ages to build, and are insanely expensive. If you look at the list of reactors in the article, most of them took only 5-6 years to buil
by pjscott 5y ago
> - Nuclear plants take ages to build, and are insanely expensive.
If you look at the list of reactors in the article, most of them took only 5-6 years to build. Between 1977 and 1987, a ten-year span of time, they added 45 GW of nuclear power to the grid. Do nuclear plants really take ages to build?
- andrewxdiamond 5y agoYou can stand up incremental solar panels at a very small scale and go up from there. Solar also requires almost 0 regulatory red tape, something that adds years onto the planning stage of a plant You get no ROI from nuclear until the plant is active.