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Re:Finland starts much-delayed nuclear plant, brings respite... by afterburner on Saturday March 12, 2022 @07:14PM (#30656489)
Um, the one in this very article took 17 years.
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Re:Finland starts much-delayed nuclear plant, brings respite... by korantu on Saturday March 12, 2022 @07:30PM (#30656608)
The fact that other countries build reactors en masse in 5 years, tells us it is possible.

South Korea is good place to learn from

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Re:Finland starts much-delayed nuclear plant, brings respite... by bigbugbag on Sunday March 13, 2022 @06:14AM (#30659864)
Not so sure: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30657725

Also we already have a similar level of wrongdoings with the French EPRs.

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Re:Finland starts much-delayed nuclear plant, brings respite... by chelical on Sunday March 13, 2022 @04:41AM (#30659262)
The process takes much longer due to political issues not technical ones. The ongoing price crunch and energy sanctions have allowed Finland to speed up the process. The same thing happened with vaccine production and COVID. Normally, vaccines take much longer to develop, test, and approve. If we followed your logic, we wouldn't bother with lockdowns since a vaccine could take a decade to develop.
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Re:Finland starts much-delayed nuclear plant, brings respite... by afterburner on Sunday March 13, 2022 @01:33PM (#30663626)
What does a conflict that started two weeks ago have to do with the construction time of a reactor that has taken 17 years to build.

You also don't seem to realize the other reason, and the primary reason, to lockdown is to lighten the peak load on hospitals, in response to waves of infection.

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