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Some anti nuclear groups do everything they can to slow down nuclear builds, putting as many road blocks in the way as possible. Then when it's slow they say: see, building nuclear plants is slow!
Did the anti nuclear people inflate the cost fourfold, too?
Yes, impeding something is ultimately an increase in cost. That's how it works.
The only miscalculation of the cost by -four times- was due to protest of anti nuclear protestors, according to you?
Source pls?
Source for what you said?..
I was reacting to what /u/DaviddoesLemmy and /u/ryedaft were saying.
You need to take the two parent posts in consideration for my argument.
Are you suggesting that delays don't impact the cost? Or that the impact of those delays doesn't account for the 4x budget overrun?
I think it's only one factor in the budget overrun, but still worth mentioning.
I'm not saying that. But saying that the only cause the project went over budget was over those protests is equally ridiculous, no?
True, but I never said that. It was once cause.
No that was the confusing aspect. /U/rottingleaf began a counter argument that kind of skewed your point. At first I thought it was you. But it became confrontational soon.
I just wanted to put a mild argument in that if it went over budget by that far there must've been other reasons.
Agreed 👍
If you are paid $1 an hour and it takes 6 hours that is $6
If you work 12 hours that is $12
12>6
The problem with nuclear is that as a bombing target it has a greater impact than a solar farm. Having said that it was once a goal for every Canadian to have a reactor in their basement
Politics are part of the system though. But if strategic supply of oil, gas, coal from undemocratic regimes was simply off the table, constitutionally forbidden and all that, I think nuclear energy would suddenly become more competitive. Because the financing of such groups would suffer.