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It takes 10 years to build
by rapsey 4y ago
It takes 10 years to build
- mschuster91 4y ago10 years? You're being generous here. Flamanville has been under construction since 2007, so at least 15 years for construction itself, and anything from 5-10 years for planning, acquiring land, relocation...
- godshatter 4y agoThe best time to start building a nuclear power plant is 20 years ago; the second best time is today.
- mschuster91 4y agoNo. The best time today is used for building out absurd amounts of renewable power - use geothermal for base load and wind/solar for peak load.
- Schroedingersat 4y agoNo, the best time is to spend the first mover costs on renewables in the 50s through 70s instead and then never build nuclear (or in the 1910s instead of spending them on coal and oil). The second best time is to build renewables now that those costs have been paid over the last 20 years.
- mjhay 4y agoThe long timelines and high costs of nuclear in the US have very little to do with the limits of the technology.
- daemoens 4y agoMjhay is correct. Anti-nuclear activists have successfully managed to use the government to stop nuclear energy construction for decades. It is entirely a political problem, not a technical one.