Hard to believe how long it takes to build a nuclear power plant nowadays.
Compare that with how long it took to win World War II.
Off topic, but I recently read that the Washington, DC Metro subway system was shutting down escalators in one station on the system, for three years, to replace the escalators at that one station. Three years to replace escalators??? I was shocked.
For a job that shouldn’t take 3 weeks.
Locally, the main road between our house and the freeway was shut down so they could put in some sewer pipes for some new apartments. This of course has been causing major traffic problems. It happened two months ago. For the first month nothing was basically being done and if you were able to drive around the road blocks you could get through without any problems. Now they have it sealed off better... nothing has been done, but they have equipment parked on the road so that it would be hard to get through. I don't know when they are planning on re-opening the road.
Union contract.
Re: NUke power plants. Part of the reason it takes so long is the damned regulations that require the plans to change even after it has been built.
How many union workers will work on that job?
Answer:
Half of them.
Walmart takes six months to fix the plumbing.