I think we need to get on with it if we are going to get serious about nuclear. From an execution standpoint, there is a big issue with there being huge time gaps between projects. There is attrition of anyone who has any background on the last project, and most of the engineering on a new project doesn't have a ton of experience that is nuclear specific. If we build a bunch of reasonably cookie cutter projects, the engineers, fabricators, constructors will all get better over time. The first couple will be inevitably over budget but they will get cheaper as you get expertise and supply chains worked out. No different than the AB O&G industry, if you are Cenovus and you are building phase after phase of the same SAGD plant they get pretty lean after a while. But if you are ConocoPhillips and you build a once in a generation massive single facility it is going to be a challenge to stay on budget.
We have tons of engineering and construction talent in AB that could pivot to nuclear plant work. We may not know the really specialized reactor guts stuff, but there are a ton of ancillary systems we could do in a heartbeat.
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