Nuclear power in the Italian news

Here’s an article from the NYTimes about a possible return to using nuclear power in Italy. An opponent of the plan said the following:

Emma Bonino, an opposition politician who is vice president of the Italian Senate, said that it made no economic sense to build nuclear plants because they would not be ready for 2o years or longer.

Think about the “production process” to build a nuclear power plant. That would clearly be set up as a “project,” but do you really think the throughput time would be twenty years? What would likely be some of the longest tasks? The bottleneck(s)? Could you arrange tasks in parallel to make the throughput time less than twenty years?

This is something you could research and talk about on your journal page, if you’re interested in this topic.