Given the high cost and long lead times involved, I’m incredibly dubious about this one actually happening.

  •  Sonori   ( @sonori@beehaw.org ) 
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    Offhand Wolseong in Korea brought thier two new reactors online in five and seven years, and have a nationwide average of six years. Qinshan in China brought two new Candean reactors online in four and five years, with a nationwide average of five years aswell.

    As the other commenter mentioned Japan has systemicly built reactors in four years, though Fukushima 2 does well to demonstrate the danger or just running old American designs forever given how much better the modern reactors at the plant did than the older ones.

    https://inis.iaea.org/collection/NCLCollectionStore/_Public/42/105/42105221.pdf