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"no one is building new fission reactors of any sort"

They are building one in Georgia http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=first-new-n...



29 under construction in China, simultaneously:

http://www.iaea.org/PRIS/WorldStatistics/UnderConstructionRe...

Rather an exception of course. But a big one.


Yes, I'm aware. I made an intentional sacrifice of accuracy to benefit brevity. If you look at a graph of new fission reactors built in the west you'll notice that it flat-lines. Taking into account this new reactor, that would put the rate of new reactor construction in the US at an average of somewhere around 0.06 reactors per year. At this rate we can expect to build 5 additional reactors in the 21st century...




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