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Those 800 wind turbines can be built in a month. Building a nuclear plant takes decades. And nuclear fuel reprocessing had never been economical by a long shot. Your pipe dreams will always regain just that and that’s before we even start talking about proliferation and nuclear waste.

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Building a nuclear plant takes decades.

In China they do it in 6 years…

https://www.statista.com/statistics/712841/median-construction-time-for-reactors-since-1981/

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And in those 6 years, you could have built over 6x that capacity in renewables, easy.

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You can also built more than 1 reactor at the same time

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I’m very glad I don’t live anywhere near one of those.

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And why is that?

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