How can plants switch to using nuclear energy?
A power plant cannot be switched to nuclear energy. It must be purpose built from the ground up to use nuclear energy. The reactor is ordered years in advance, and the time from inception to completion ranged up to 20 years here in the US. I use the past tense because no new nuclear plants have been ordered in the United States and actually been built since 1974. A fossil fuel plant cannot be changed to use nuclear energy although it can be changed to use a different fossil fuel if money is no object. For example, a plant that burns oil may be altered to burn natural gas.
