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It's awesome what can be done when you clear away all the bureaucracy.

I bet nuclear plants could be built on the same timescale.



This has historical precedent. Many plants were built in such time scales. About a quarter of them shut down early or destroyed themselves because they were so unreliable, the rest generated electricity less frequently and with more correlated outage than a wind turbine.

China is the only exception, but they still take 4-8x as long to build a nuclear plant compared to a wind farm, it's just that both take less time.


I bet those nuclear power plants would be less safe. Much "bureaucracy" is there for a reason


There wasn't much bureaucracy in the 70s. The reactors built in the 70s in France are as safe as they get.


They still took around 5 years and have barely higher availability than a wind turbine.


It could just as well free up budget to make things safer.




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