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Re:Making Nuclear Energy Smaller, Cheaper And Safer by pfdietz on Wednesday May 08, 2019 @05:56PM (#19863388)
No, the biggest hurdle is that it's grossly uneconomic.
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Re:Making Nuclear Energy Smaller, Cheaper And Safer by thrower123 on Wednesday May 08, 2019 @06:13PM (#19863488)
Because it costs billions of dollars to check everything over in octuplet and build everything special because everyone is so damned afraid of The Bomb that we gave up on building them fifty years ago at scale.

It's the safest thing going.

https://twitter.com/ShellenbergerMD/status/11255616735556935...

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Re:Making Nuclear Energy Smaller, Cheaper And Safer by pfdietz on Thursday May 09, 2019 @10:15PM (#19874487)
The nuclear industry isn't very good at making reactors, but they're really good at making excuses.
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