Now you cherry pick a single example to try and justify your previous statement, that’s weak. That would be like me trying to prove my point with one of the mini plants built in 3.5 years when I know the average is at least double that. Also your second statement is incorrect. If there’s suddenly demand for nuclear the amount of companies building plants would rise to match demand and existing outfits will scale their operations, just like the rise of solar companies in the past decades.

And of course if we build hundreds of reactors it’ll take decades, but until solar meets all our needs it’s choosing between lesser evils. We didn’t suddenly stop building all the coal plants because solar exists. Nope, in fact China is still breaking ground on new plants and plans to, until renewables meet all their needs. They are the ones extracting the minerals and building the panels and they know they need a stop gap.

You keep acting like it’s nuclear vs solar but it’s really nuclear vs coal. Humanity is going to keep building non renewable power plants for at least another thirty years, I would prefer them to be nuclear instead of coal.