First new U.S. nuclear reactor since 2016 is now in operation

Re:First new U.S. nuclear reactor since 2016 is now in opera... by saltminer on Wednesday December 27, 2023 @06:36PM (#38788219)

The A-35 (a highway in Quebec) has been under construction since 1966. When finished, it will be 34 miles/55 km long.

Two decades isn't very long for an infrastructure project, which is unfortunate since long-term planning benefits greatly from political stability, and many areas are seeing large shifts for the worse in that regard.

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Re:First new U.S. nuclear reactor since 2016 is now in opera... by adastra22 on Wednesday December 27, 2023 @08:49PM (#38789054)

Two decades ought be a very long time for an infrastructure project. I guarantee you China and India aren't taking 47 years to build a 55 km highway.

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Re:First new U.S. nuclear reactor since 2016 is now in opera... by jeromegv on Wednesday December 27, 2023 @10:28PM (#38789665)

It’s an extremely poor example. It’s a multi phase project and for many years government didn’t provide any funding as it was not a priority. It’s not like they were actively trying to build it for 47 years, they built multiple small parts of it through multiple phases but they were never trying to build the whole thing. It was just not anything important to complete.

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Re:First new U.S. nuclear reactor since 2016 is now in opera... by adastra22 on Wednesday December 27, 2023 @11:01PM (#38789889)

The criticism still stands. It should not take 47 years from recognition that a road is needed to actually building it.

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Re:First new U.S. nuclear reactor since 2016 is now in opera... by KMag on Thursday December 28, 2023 @01:17AM (#38790624)

What if sections will be needed now, and it's easy enough to make a plan to eventually connect all of the parts as needed? Get the zoning work done to prevent anything over 2 stories tall being built over the planned route, and then build the various sections as needed/as budget is available. I'm not saying that's what happened, but I can see smart, modular, as-needed infrastructure projects being drawn out over decades like this.

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Re:First new U.S. nuclear reactor since 2016 is now in opera... by phatfish on Thursday December 28, 2023 @04:27AM (#38791648)

The irony of software engineers complaining about a project not being feature complete and on time.

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Re:First new U.S. nuclear reactor since 2016 is now in opera... by adastra22 on Thursday December 28, 2023 @05:03AM (#38791867)

When a project that should take 5 months takes 500 months, this isn't a case of the pot calling the kettle black.

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Re:First new U.S. nuclear reactor since 2016 is now in opera... by dmd on Wednesday December 27, 2023 @09:12PM (#38789201)

I would be stunned if it took 47 days.

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Re:First new U.S. nuclear reactor since 2016 is now in opera... by doubleg72 on Wednesday December 27, 2023 @10:15PM (#38789593)

But only lasts half that..

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Re:First new U.S. nuclear reactor since 2016 is now in opera... by dmd on Thursday December 28, 2023 @07:07AM (#38792636)

??? I think you’re thinking of US roads, which are generally shoddily constructed and poorly maintained compared to chinese ones.

No, what you meant to say was “and only 47 people died constructing it!”

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Re:First new U.S. nuclear reactor since 2016 is now in opera... by bonestamp2 on Thursday December 28, 2023 @03:10PM (#38797999)

China has had more than 150 modern bridges collapse. Some of them collapsed in less than a year. China is not building or maintaining bridges any better than the US.

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/268466718_Statistic...

https://www.bbc.com/news/av/world-asia-china-19365886

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Re:First new U.S. nuclear reactor since 2016 is now in opera... by adastra22 on Thursday December 28, 2023 @04:17PM (#38798726)

Montreal roads are famously bad.

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Re:First new U.S. nuclear reactor since 2016 is now in opera... by m4rtink on Thursday December 28, 2023 @07:15AM (#38792708)

The Brno main post office building here in the Czech Republic has been built as a modular structure that can be moved and reassembled once the new main railway station is completed.

That was in 1937 - the new main railway station does not exist yet (though it looks like it might actually be built this time) and post even moved out of the historic building last year. :P

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Re:First new U.S. nuclear reactor since 2016 is now in opera... by HankB99 on Wednesday December 27, 2023 @05:18PM (#38787484)

Makes me wonder how much effort went into mothballing partial construction and then unwinding all of that to get it going again. Seems like it would have cost a lot.

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Re:First new U.S. nuclear reactor since 2016 is now in opera... by lallysingh on Wednesday December 27, 2023 @06:34PM (#38788201)

You don't have to worry about disposing of any copper pipe!

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Re:First new U.S. nuclear reactor since 2016 is now in opera... by FireBeyond on Wednesday December 27, 2023 @05:26PM (#38787568)

Check out Satsop, Washington: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WNP-3_and_WNP-5

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Re:First new U.S. nuclear reactor since 2016 is now in opera... by riffic on Wednesday December 27, 2023 @09:45PM (#38789421)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Juragua_Nuclear_Power_Plant

an abandoned nuclear station in Cuba

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Re:First new U.S. nuclear reactor since 2016 is now in opera... by 0xDEADFED5 on Wednesday December 27, 2023 @10:22PM (#38789631)

shared earlier this year, a blog post about a clandestine visit in 2014:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35672840

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Re:First new U.S. nuclear reactor since 2016 is now in opera... by polski-g on Thursday December 28, 2023 @11:10AM (#38794871)

Many churches in England took 100 years to build

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Re:First new U.S. nuclear reactor since 2016 is now in opera... by missedthecue on Thursday December 28, 2023 @03:22PM (#38798138)

A lot of the reason for the lengthy construction times in cathedrals and churches was the amount of hand-skilled craftsmanship associated with marble, wood, and stone carving and artistry.

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