YungOnions , 21 days ago

Great, but unless you can get Japan to build every Nuclear reactor in the world, that's a meaningless statistic, isn't it? The average construction time for a PWR remains 7 years globally:

https://inis.iaea.org/collection/NCLCollectionStore/_Public/42/105/42105221.pdf?r=1&r=1

This doesn't account for planning etc etc so the actual time from pre project to switch on is closer to 11 years, which is admittedly 3 years less than my original figure:

https://www.iaea.org/publications/8759/project-management-in-nuclear-power-plant-construction-guidelines-and-experience

Also the fastest Nuclear power plant construction in the world is currently held by Kashiwazaki-Kariwa Unit 6 NPP at 5.41 years, construction start to commercial operation:

https://inis.iaea.org/collection/NCLCollectionStore/_Public/30/020/30020307.pdf

That often quoted 3 years doesn't include inspections, testing etc.