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Depends on what you consider the start date. Practically speaking there’s some investigation into building nuclear in Italy that already occurred but using that
by Retric 9mo ago
Depends on what you consider the start date. Practically speaking there’s some investigation into building nuclear in Italy that already occurred but using that as a start date isn’t meaningful here. Similarly the announcement you point to was a long way from having everything required to actually build a power plant.
Until there’s actual funding talking about nuclear doesn’t really mean anything. Vogal was a boondoggle but it didn’t get construction approval until 2012 and like many projects ran into COVID delays on top of everything else.
> These projects always go overbudget, badly.
Using the worst examples means there’s something very wrong with each of them.
- ImPostingOnHN 9mo ago> Vogal was a boondoggle but it didn’t get construction approval until 2012 and like many projects ran into COVID delays on top of everything else. Well there you are, then: projects experience delays in construction approval and run into other unexpected delays, which extends a ~10yr estimate.
- Retric 9mo agoThe 10 year estimate comes from a range of projects including some that go very badly and others that didn't. You can always pick worse numbers by using a smaller sample of projects, but it isn’t necessarily meaningful to do so. California’s high speed rail has gone far worse than Italy’s projects, America is currently comically bad at large construction projects.