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Considering the growth in renewable technology I'd like to see an updated graph of build times. I doubt building Nuclear energy is anywhere near as fast as renewable energy today.

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This may be pretty inaccurate, but I recall hearing a comment from someone (in a position of authority on the subject, but for the life of me can't remember who it was) mention that "no nuclear reactor construction has ever been completed on-time or on-budget".

I'd love to find the source of this quote though and check it's validity.

This is a problem when you build ten, build a thousand and you'll have an engineering force able to more accurately predict things.

The other problem: the electricty cost includes the cost of disposing the nuclear reactors: if they weren't able to price correctly the building of the power plant, are you confident that they priced correctly the disposal of the power plant?

The article is from 2017, what makes you think it has changed that much?

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