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Fine, just start. Find a place that has willing neighbors, then spend 10-20 years building it and plz prevent cost overruns. It'll be ready too late to contribute to our near-term (2030) goals. But not for the later goals of course.

Good start building ASAP anyways, but not at the expense of things that are faster to deploy.

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Building massive undersea transmission lines are not a weekend job either. We're talking many years either way.

Yes indeed. And wind farms also doesn't just sprout from the ground either.

But still, they are much faster to deploy than a nuclear plant, plenty of examples for that around.

> willing neighbors

There is a chance I cannot compute (not a specialist) that the long drought wave in Europe - meaning, the lack of certainty of the reliable flow of rivers - may impose extra burden on the selection of eligible fitting places.

> Find a place that has willing neighbors

You mean Germany right now after it stupidly shut down its last nuclear reactors, and is dependent on coal, and imports from France (75% of whose electricity comes from nuclear).

In a different comment, I mentioned `40-50 years of momentum against them`, yes, that Germany indeed. In my native Netherlands we're looking to build 2 nuclear plants. I doubt they'll ever be built, as they take a long time to build and the current public in opinion is mildly in favor I suppose (if that at all) but that will swing up and down over the build time.

But yes, shutting them down at this moment is at least bad timing, but the preparations for that have been going on for years apparently. I'm not a nuclear power plant operator so I don't know what is involved with extending operation once certain decisions have been made.

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