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They don’t have to take that long to build.
by mwint 4y ago
They don’t have to take that long to build.
- pfdietz 4y agoYes, we can imagine the Nuclear Fairy waving her magic wand to give us NPPs. Here in the real world, we operate under constraints that we can't just wish away because that would be convenient for the point we're trying to defend. Among those constraints is the lack of organizational and industrial experience and infrastructure for effectively making new NPPs.
- mwint 4y agoIf it was seen as a high priority, we could do it. They put people on the moon in the 60’s in less time than people claim it’d take to build a power plant today. Ingredients for a quick transition to nuclear: 1. Gov’t must be willing to ignore NIMBY/BANANA people 2. Accept slightly more risk than zero 3. Aggressively poach people from countries with healthy nuclear programs and put them in charge of ours.
- azemetre 4y agoWhat does banana stand for? Searching, obviously, yields nothing fruitful.
- pfdietz 4y agoBuild Absolutely Nothing Anywhere Near Anyone > nothing fruitful I see what you did there.
- pfdietz 4y agoThe Apollo program was achieving a technical result, not an economically competitive result. The systems produced by Apollo were unsustainably expensive. What you are proposing is, instead, to count on a centrally planned economic model to produce a competitive outcome. This is something the US is not very good at. It's also entirely unrealistic due to the scale of the activity that would be required.