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We're closer to tripling renewable energy capacity by 2030 than we look – IEA (electrek.co)

submitted 5 months ago by threelonmusketeers@sh.itjust.works to c/energy

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[–] RealFknNito@lemmy.world -4 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Reactors can be built in as little as 3 years, thanks for your outdated input.

[–] YungOnions@sh.itjust.works 4 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (1 children)

Cool, but that's not how averages work, is it.

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

Also the fastest Nuclear power plant construction in the world is currently held by Kashiwazaki-Kariwa Unit 6 NPP at 5.41 years, construction start to commercial operation:

https://inis.iaea.org/collection/NCLCollectionStore/_Public/30/020/30020307.pdf

That often quoted 3 years doesn't include inspections, testing etc.

[–] RealFknNito@lemmy.world -1 points 5 months ago

All I'm hearing is we should have started a decade ago and people are still giving bullshit reasons to not start right now. You're part of the problem my man.