News for hackers. Stuff that matters.

A comment on The Necessity of Nuclear. Parent comment

Re:The Necessity of Nuclear by mch82 on Sunday October 13, 2019 @08:19PM (#21244265)
There are 5 Quora answers: 3.3-5 years, 9 years, 7 years, 10-12 years (with 35 year outliers), and 4.8 years. 7 years is near the average of all those answers.

> “ Most of the wait time is due to lack of demand”

None of the Quora answers cited this as a reason. And the Quora answers are the low end of the scale (40 months) only included construction time in their answer, not site finding, licensing, or startup.

[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:The Necessity of Nuclear by downrightmike on Sunday October 13, 2019 @09:16PM (#21244523)
There is a HUGE if, IF they get built. We can't actually build these anymore. There isn't enough funding/willingness to get these built. 16 billion pound project can't get off the ground: https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2019/jan/11/hitachi-...
[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:The Necessity of Nuclear by Gibbon1 on Monday October 14, 2019 @03:48AM (#21246028)
I think building modern reactors just stretches our industrial capability too far. Doesn't help that in the US due to de-industrialization there isn't enough skilled managers, engineers or skilled workers either.
[ Parent | on HN ]