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Craygor t1_ivtqdb0 wrote

Reply to comment by wheels405 in The climate crisis explained in 10 charts by HenryCorp

Construction might be a bit longer than a coal plant, but the amount of energy is huge and they can have an operating service life of over a hundred years until needing replacing. ,

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wheels405 t1_ivtvwfy wrote

I support nuclear as part of the solution. But its construction time should be compared to the construction time of other renewables, not to the construction time of coal plants.

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No-Asparagus6190 t1_ivxiy9o wrote

The thing is, nuclear plants haven't really been build all that much. When Voglte 3 in Georgia goes Critical in December it will be the first new plant in decades. We can pump out nuclear but the problem is they're very expensive and time consuming since we don't have the industrial infrastructure, so to speak. The more we build, the cheaper and quicker they can be built, we just need a few more people to take that leap.

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