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The 5 years of construction is the fast part. How many years of planning and permits did it take before they broke ground?
by bryanlarsen 4mo ago
The 5 years of construction is the fast part. How many years of planning and permits did it take before they broke ground?
- throw0101c 4mo agoIf you have a site that's approved for a nuclear power, there is overhead in getting that approval, but once you have a site you can roll through multiple reactors. It's similar to the housing crisis: all this talk about pre-built components to make building homes/mid-rises/etc faster ignores all the planning approval and NIMBY objections that need to be ploughed through first.
- Moldoteck 4mo agonot that many either if the design is sufficiently flexible. That's how japan spewed several ABWR's so fast