• Carighan Maconar@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    I mean let’s be honest here, there’s no way they did this because of an underlying police change.

    I suspect they rather looked at other western countries trying to build large-scale projects and noticed how absurd the idea of building one nuclear reactor without a 15y++ delay was, nevermind 10 of them. Quietly drop it before someone checks whether it’s even doable. 😅

    Source: Am German, we are experts on letting our complicated building projects run completely overbudget and take multiple times as long as projected.

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      1 year ago

      That’s a so stupid take it’s hilarious. It’d be a nice world if ecofanatics were spending half their energy against coal instead of fighting nuclear.

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        1 year ago

        Being against coal and gas, I want the fastest solution that displaces coal and gas. That’s wind and solar in most locations. It’s not nuclear. Nuclear takes a long time to build, and while you build it you’re still burning coal and gas. Recent experience is that you take the original schedule / budget and multiply by 2 to 3, so that’s even more time you’re still burning coal.

        Granted, if you already have nuclear, don’t decommission it, but don’t build more either.

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      1 year ago

      Sweden realized they couldn’t join NATO if they invited Chinese expertise to help build a nuclear power plant.

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        1 year ago

        “Chinese expertise” building reactors like the ones in Finland, France and the UK?

        1. I don’t think it’s a problem for those NATO members.
        2. By the way those projects have gone, I’m not sure if expertise is the right word.