I like #fission #boiler #steam #power but if you start putting blocks of #solar panels down and connecting them to substations you can do it in many places and in sequence, and each 1000 kW you do is another 300 kWh per day. Add a #battery here and there, and you spread that through the whole day.
Fission takes a #decade, or perhaps 5 years (or 30) before a turbine spins a generator, and yes, all day and a GW but power next #winter is highly valuable.
And #wind, onshore...
@Photo55 Actual build is about 5 years. Permitting for a nuke is about another five years if past performance gives us any clues.
And then, of course, you and your kids and your kids' kids out to the 1000th cursed generation gets to try to avoid being sickened and killed by the waste.
_And_ any money spent on that can't be spent on solar, wind, batteries which are, as you point out, useful right now.
@quixote yes. The French made a major effort in the 1950s and built "50 in a decade" which does point out that you can do the stages in sequence, an idea behind the small modular reactor _stories_.
The one in Somerset, on a site already used for two, has had about a 25 year run up, but now has tops on both boilers, and another couple or 5 years should see it generating.
I think we probably need a reactor or several in 20 years, so we had best build them, but meanwhile a MWp/week will help.
MidgePhoto
quixote