Nuclear Power Was Once Shunned at Climate Talks. Now, It’s a Rising Star. (www.nytimes.com)

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[-] EddoWagt@feddit.nl 5 points 1 week 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/

[-] ByteJunk@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago

And in those 6 years, you could have built over 6x that capacity in renewables, easy.

[-] EddoWagt@feddit.nl 2 points 1 week ago

You can also built more than 1 reactor at the same time

[-] 418_im_a_teapot@lemmy.world 3 points 6 days ago

The same can be said of any power source?

[-] EddoWagt@feddit.nl -1 points 6 days ago

Sure, but the other commenter conveniently forgot that that's the case for nuclear as well

[-] ByteJunk@lemmy.world 2 points 6 days ago

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.

[-] EddoWagt@feddit.nl 1 points 6 days ago

But then you still haven't solved any of the issues with renewables (at least solar and wind); The amount of space they take up, their inconsistent power output and power grids which haven't been designed for them.

[-] ByteJunk@lemmy.world 1 points 5 days ago

It saddens me that we're here dealing with a push for obsolete, untenable solutions, and all the while, China keeps solving your "impossible issues" on the daily:

https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20241113-will-chinas-ultra-high-voltage-grid-pay-off-for-renewable-power