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It turns out that nuclear is easy to build around the world. Average construction times have been more or less constant the last five decades and are currently
by mpweiher 2y ago
It turns out that nuclear is easy to build around the world.
Average construction times have been more or less constant the last five decades and are currently at 6.5 years (trend: slightly falling). Median (typical) time is lower.
https://www.sustainabilitybynumbers.com/p/nuclear-construction-time https://www.sustainabilitybynumbers.com/p/nuclear-constructi...
- rgmerk 2y agoAnd this particular refurbishment is in one of the countries with serious cost and schedule overruns for its nuclear build, and a country and specifically a region that is bad at physical infrastructure.
- mpweiher 2y agoThis is a country that simply hasn't built nuclear for ages. And the only one (two reactors) it did build was a brand new design (FOAK - First of a Kind). With COVID happening. Like everything, this gets better with practice.
- rgmerk 2y agoThis is a recommissioning of a 50 year old plant that’s been sitting idle for five years from an era when nuclear plants were all bespoke. Does that sound more like an nth of a kind project, or a first of a kind project?
- mpweiher 2y agoIt sounds like a refurbishment of a plant that was working just fine until 2019, not a new build of a design where you don't even know if it can be built. (The originally submitted Vogtle-3/4 design could not be built) In fact, last I checked they had already planned this refurbishment, but could not obtain the funds to do it, and thus shut down the plant instead. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯