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Re:Extinction Rebellion: Nuclear power 'only option' says fo... by AnthonyMouse on Friday September 11, 2020 @06:20AM (#24441072)
> If you want to build more nuclear plants at the same time you also need more workers

So hire more workers. Most "nuclear plant construction work" isn't some foreign species of construction work. It's pouring concrete and laying pipe. The main part that isn't is the reactor vessel itself, but that's the part that can be made on an assembly line and shipped in.

> more specialized factories

Building a factory takes what, a year? Then it's mass production.

> a proven design

This is literally the main reason construction takes as long as it does already. If it isn't accomplishing that then throw that process away and build them all in three years with plenty of time left over to correct any issues before bringing them online.

> If you assign a worker to Hinkley C then he is going to work at Hinkley C until it is finished. You can't just send him to a different plant. That would delay Hinkley C.

Fortunately there is not only a single worker in the entire country, and arbitrarily many can be trained on a scale not measured in decades.

Re:Extinction Rebellion: Nuclear power 'only option' says fo... by glomph on Friday September 11, 2020 @02:12PM (#24445628)
If it was that simple why does literally every nuclear power plant run way behind schedule and way over budget?
Re:Extinction Rebellion: Nuclear power 'only option' says fo... by AnthonyMouse on Friday September 11, 2020 @02:47PM (#24446049)
First, because there are regulatory problems (e.g. regulators changing the rules after the part of the plant they apply to has already been built). Second, because they're not being built at scale.