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Re:Why are nuclear power construction costs so high? by samstave on Thursday June 09, 2022 @01:45PM (#31684388)
That sounds like a brilliant idea. However, the tooling and staffing requirements of a Coal Plant arent going to suffice for a nuke.

How do they propose training for existing employees of a coal plant.

We think of Coal folks as "dirty stupid miners from kentucky" and we think of people that work at nuke sites as "white lab coat wearing scientists"

The only dirty stupid person from Kentucky is Mitch.

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Re:Why are nuclear power construction costs so high? by SoftTalker on Thursday June 09, 2022 @03:50PM (#31685917)
I think there is a good amount of overlap.

Operating the reactor is of course specialized. But once you have the steam, the rest of the power plant is conventional. Steam turbines, generators, and all the grid tie-in would be mostly the same as a coal plant.

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Re:Why are nuclear power construction costs so high? by MisterTea on Thursday June 09, 2022 @03:25PM (#31685652)
> However, the tooling and staffing requirements of a Coal Plant arent going to suffice for a nuke.

I am not sure what you mean by Tooling but I am sure these retrofit reactors aren't going to be dropped off by UPS and someone on site has to figure out how to plug it in.

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