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This is awesome. But nuclear bulls should remember it takes half a decade or so to build up nuclear power plants. Newer reactors (SMRs) will probably take even
by arberx 5y ago
This is awesome. But nuclear bulls should remember it takes half a decade or so to build up nuclear power plants.
Newer reactors (SMRs) will probably take even longer.
- andy_ppp 5y agoI thought the point of SMRs is that they can be built more quickly?
- arberx 5y agoRegulatory approval still lacking + most are untested.
- baq 5y agoHalf a decade? That isn’t happening even in China…
- arberx 5y agoMedian construction time is 7 years: https://www.statista.com/statistics/712841/median-construction-time-for-reactors-since-1981/ https://www.statista.com/statistics/712841/median-constructi...
- eunos 5y agoHualong One reactor construction time is around 5-6 years but pandemic slow things down.
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- gwbennett 5y agoThe US Navy builds new nuclear reactors every year. It takes 5+ years to build commercial plants because of government bureaucrats, endless regulations and every new nuke plant is a new, non-standard design.
- bun_at_work 5y agoI think a lot of the time is spent dealing with local regulatory issues, at least in the US. Non-standard models for nuclear power plants lead to long approval times, which have to be more or less restarted each time there is a design change. This is a huge contribution to the time it takes getting a nuclear power plant online. As another commenter pointed out, it's not the same in China, where regulation is far more lax than in the US.
- XorNot 5y agoIf we never start, we'll never finish. The "too late for climate change argument" is stupid because it's abundantly clear we're going to miss that by half a century anyway (looks at own country's politicians still spruiking coal and using tax payer money to prop up the industry).