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Re:Big Coal Plants Begin to Close by wahern on Friday August 16, 2019 @05:04PM (#20719689)
Americans are just slow. The Japanese and South Koreans can build nuclear plants in a jiffy: https://www.scmp.com/news/asia/article/2027347/south-korea-s...

Maybe that's why Toshiba thought it was a good idea to buy Westinghouse; that they could better manage American mega projects.

Re:Big Coal Plants Begin to Close by adrianN on Saturday August 17, 2019 @12:41AM (#20722092)
83 plants over twenty years means that we first need to scale up production capabilities for things like pressure vessels (they need gigantic forges to make) because we can even think about building hundreds and hundreds of nuclear power plants in the next twenty years. We also need to train engineers to staff them.