Nuclear power plants take something like a decade to build (after permitting)
It makes more sense to go for PV plus batteries that can be installed in a matter of weeks
It makes more sense to go for PV plus batteries that can be installed in a matter of weeks
Apparently Japan is the fastest builder (46 months).
the 10 year+ issue is a western problem.
How do we get a DC in a year?
> The company has apparently been thinking outside the box to meet its power needs, with Musk stating a couple of weeks ago that it intends to buy a power plant from abroad and import it into the US to provide energy for its data centers.
Load-bearing parenthetical!
> Nuclear power plants take something like a decade to build
The most-recently completed fission power station on this planet needed 23 years under construction and it is still in testing. A recent American one took 15 years.
The brits let all that technical capability wither and could not do it again right now.
But if someone was willing its still theoretically possible. Just takes total alignment between government and private.
The problem is that if you dont start correcting that hardness now, the next time you think you might need a nuclear industry, its still hard.
You need to train, grant experience and give money to professionals so they can exist to build stuff. It took the UK ~ 15 years to get started, then they were cranking them out like no ones business.
Think of it this way, in 15 years you can have something you might need, or you can guarantee you wont have it whether you need it or not.
Thing is its the same for all large infrastructure products. But only in nuke do we have people actively trying to prevent the industry from being created and maintained so they can use the unreadyness as an excuse.
You have to tack on a few slow builds that create talent and local knowledge for that, or poaching people from China Operation Paperclip style maybe.