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The US Navy has built hundreds of nuclear reactors in much shorter timeframes. There's nothing intrinsic about nuclear that demands such long builds. It'd need to be done at a societal level with some sort of standardization and mass industrial process. The French more or less did this for their nukes for instance.


The reason for long duration is regulations and inspections. Navy has a lot fewer constraints in that aspect.


And yet the Navy has a pretty good safety record.


As far as we know.




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