>If we committed to building out nuclear today, we'd get our first one online in about 20 years. Only true because of the regulatory burden imposed by the gove

>If we committed to building out nuclear today, we'd get our first one online in about 20 years. Only true because of the regulatory burden imposed by the government on their construction, there's nothing about the design or construction of the plants which takes that long. Look at China, it takes them about 6 years to build a nuclear power plant. Politicians have been using climate change as a political tool for decades, if they had started pushing the construction of these plants back when they first started talking about the issue we could have been bringing enough power plants online by now to already have solved the problem.