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Originally Posted by Maccalus
Most of the delays are regulatory framework related though, something that having creative governments who work together can improve. The federal government wants Alberta to decarbonize the grid, nuclear is a viable way to do that. Work together and get things done. Nuclear is only one option that that can and should be explored.
The global average is well below 15 years for nuclear plant construction.
https://www.statista.com/statistics/...rs-since-1981/ |
Nuclear should absolutely take less than 15 years, and having a reasonable regulatory framework operated by competent governments with a decisive and timely legal system would definitely help with that. Unfortunately that isn't the situation we are in here in Canada (see: pipelines).
I think new nuclear plants at the locations where we used to have coal plants makes a lot of sense for Alberta. It has the potential to provide the low cost base load generation we need to supplement the intermittent renewables.