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10 more years is needed if you want nuclear.

Possibly also batteries, but that’s harder for me to estimate — we’ve got the price down, but we need way more volume.

It would take mere months to open back up those plants recently closed. Back in the 70s they could construct plants in 2-5 years. Chernobyl 1 began and completed construction in the same year!

Has our technology gotten worse since then? Or is it just permits and bureaucracy impeding us?

This is worldwide, not localised to one specific nation, so likely we created the bureaucracy for good reasons.

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