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What do you mean nobody’s building it. Lots of countries are building it the UK’s literally just started construction on a new nuclear power plant at Hinckley.

The situation that you believe exists in the world does in fact not exist.

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frezik@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
en.wikipedia.org/…/Hinkley_Point_C_nuclear_power_…

When construction began in March 2017 completion was expected in 2025. Since then the project has been subject to several delays, including some caused by the COVID-19 pandemic,[11] and Brexit, and this has resulted in significant budget overruns. In EDF’s 2022 annual results published on 17 February 2023, the cost was £31–32 billion in 2023 prices, Unit 1 had a start date of June 2027 and a risk of 15 months further delay.[12][13][14] In January 2024, EDF announced that it estimated that the final cost would be £31–35 billion (2015 prices, excluding interim interest), £41.6–47.9 billion in 2024 prices, with Unit 1 planned to become operational in 2029 to 2031.[15][16][17][3]

You sure this is what you want to cite as a success? This story of cost and budget overruns is the norm in nuclear projects.

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- echodot@feddit.uk ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
  Stop moving the goal post, your claim was no one was building nuclear power stations, clearly they are building nuclear power stations.
  
  In this entire thread, no one has ever made the claim that they were easy or quick to build.
  
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  - frezik@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
    So this is about your misunderstanding of exaggeration? Obviously there’s a few projects going around the world. They’ve largely fallen into the problems above: over budget and over schedule. Consistently. France is just about the only success story.
    
    Construction basically is at a standstill in the US. I’ve detailed elsewhere in the thread how the NRC approved several licenses years ago, but zero progress has been made. It’s easy to see why. Nuclear is a shit tier investment.
    
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