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Re:Safer Nuclear Reactors Are on the Way by suvsidhd on Friday July 05, 2019 @04:21PM (#20365532)
They’re, arguably, the only country left with a serious nuclear industry. One that can propose a new reactor design and follow up to commercialization.

The US’ got lazy, the European was good, but never innovative, Canada and S. Africa are too small.

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Re:Safer Nuclear Reactors Are on the Way by pfdietz on Wednesday July 10, 2019 @07:53AM (#20401049)
The US didn't get lazy, the US allowed the market to speak (with substantial deregulation of the electrical power generation industry). And the market said nuclear is a loser technology, compared to alternatives. Not investing in loser technologies is not laziness, but intelligence.
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