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Re:All Applications for Nuclear Energy at COP26 Rejected by johnny53169 on Sunday October 31, 2021 @10:46AM (#29057349)
> It would take at least ten years to educate the nuclear engineers needed to build dozens or even hundreds of them. And even then they don't have experience, they are juniors building very complex multi billion dollar installations.

How did they do it in the past then? The first power station opened in 1956 when the technology was secretive and when there was no internet. The real problem looks completely because of red tape and NIMBY

Edit: You are also misinformed, there are Gen III reactors in operation https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/APR-1400

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Re:All Applications for Nuclear Energy at COP26 Rejected by chefkoch on Sunday October 31, 2021 @11:34AM (#29057701)
As i said to another commenter, you are right, i was thinking of Gen III+ like EPR.

When we started out building nuclear plants the where much simpler, much smaller designs and a lot of designs didn't work out the way hoped. Nuclear is hard, it's hard on the materials and often you problems appear while building or running it.

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