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Nuclear Power Was Once Shunned at Climate Talks. Now, It’s a Rising Star. (www.nytimes.com)
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[–] EddoWagt@feddit.nl 8 points 5 days ago (12 children)

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/

[–] ByteJunk@lemmy.world 3 points 5 days ago (7 children)

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

[–] EddoWagt@feddit.nl 4 points 5 days ago (6 children)

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

[–] 418_im_a_teapot@lemmy.world 2 points 4 days ago (1 children)

The same can be said of any power source?

[–] EddoWagt@feddit.nl 1 points 4 days ago

Sure, but the other commenter conveniently forgot that that's the case for nuclear as well

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