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First planned small nuclear reactor plant in the US has been canceled (arstechnica.com)

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First planned small nuclear reactor plant in the US has been canceled::NuScale and its primary partner give up on its first installation.

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

The problem I have is these problems are all caused by corner cutting and yes we could live in fantasy world where corporations don't cut corners to save money and will just keep pouring money into a pit just to be safe even when they're already losing money hand over fist due to not being able to compete with kWh pricing from renewables - but we don't live in that world.

We'll end up with minimum wage staff working without proper training, safety systems turned off because they're too expensive to repair, and leaks not reported because company policy is broken. They're going to be run by the same companies the are dumping oil into the Niger Delta for the last however many decades simply because it's cheaper than fixing the issue - putting faith that 'we'll do it properly this time' is incredibly dumb based on the near limitless examples of that never happening.