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minus-squareEddoWagt@feddit.nllinkfedilinkarrow-up6·1 day ago Building a nuclear plant takes decades. In China they do it in 6 years… https://www.statista.com/statistics/712841/median-construction-time-for-reactors-since-1981/
minus-squareByteJunk@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up2arrow-down2·23 hours agoAnd in those 6 years, you could have built over 6x that capacity in renewables, easy.
minus-squareEddoWagt@feddit.nllinkfedilinkarrow-up4arrow-down1·21 hours agoYou can also built more than 1 reactor at the same time
minus-squareByteJunk@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up1·5 hours agoYou could, but with that colossal amount of resources you could have built 12x in renewables, probably more because of economy of scale. And if you decide to commit all those resources to renewables, you probably just created a booming local industry of well paying jobs.
minus-squareDiplomjodler@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up2arrow-down8·1 day agoI’m very glad I don’t live anywhere near one of those.
minus-squareDiplomjodler@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up3arrow-down5·24 hours agoThe Chinese are really famous for their safety culture, right?
minus-squareEddoWagt@feddit.nllinkfedilinkarrow-up5·21 hours agoNone of their reactors have blown up yet and they’ve had nuclear plants since the 50’s
In China they do it in 6 years…
https://www.statista.com/statistics/712841/median-construction-time-for-reactors-since-1981/
And in those 6 years, you could have built over 6x that capacity in renewables, easy.
You can also built more than 1 reactor at the same time
You could, but with that colossal amount of resources you could have built 12x in renewables, probably more because of economy of scale.
And if you decide to commit all those resources to renewables, you probably just created a booming local industry of well paying jobs.
I’m very glad I don’t live anywhere near one of those.
And why is that?
The Chinese are really famous for their safety culture, right?
None of their reactors have blown up yet and they’ve had nuclear plants since the 50’s