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Re:Nuclear Power in France by pjscott on Tuesday October 12, 2021 @01:01PM (#28842120)
> - Nuclear plants take ages to build, and are insanely expensive.

If you look at the list of reactors in the article, most of them took only 5-6 years to build. Between 1977 and 1987, a ten-year span of time, they added 45 GW of nuclear power to the grid. Do nuclear plants really take ages to build?

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Re:Nuclear Power in France by andrewxdiamond on Tuesday October 12, 2021 @01:16PM (#28842332)
You can stand up incremental solar panels at a very small scale and go up from there. Solar also requires almost 0 regulatory red tape, something that adds years onto the planning stage of a plant

You get no ROI from nuclear until the plant is active.

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