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Well yes, it's a fact.  Variables like scale, generation capacity and technology choice factor into construction time.  How long it takes an unskilled, unionized Australian workforce to build and commission a reactor is not really that relevant.  We will likely never get one approved here.


Global nuclear reactor construction time 1981-2020

Published by Statista Research Department, Jan 11, 2022

Median construction time required for nuclear reactors worldwide oscillated from around 83 months to 84 months, from 1981 to 2020 respectively. During the period in consideration, the longest median construction time for nuclear reactors was between 1996 and 2000, at 120 months, while the shortest was from 2001 to 2005, at about 57.5 months.


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