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> One big root cause for most of the delays is the fact that no new reactor projects were started in a long time before this one

There have actually been quite a few new reactors brought online in the past two decades in France, the UAE, Russia and Belarus. This is a brand new design though, and construction was started in multiple countries at similar points in time.

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Only France of those is under the Western regulation, and even though they did bring a couple of reactors online in the beginning of 2000s, those projects were started at least 30 years ago, using designs from before that. Hence, for example the burden of verifying that industrial digital automation can be made nuclear regulation compliant lied on the EPR project.

> There have actually been quite a few new reactors brought online in the past two decades in France,

Uh? Not a single one.

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