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A comment on Nuclear startup Oklo gets thumbs-down from regulators. Parent comment
It's not that the NRC is unfair but it is like private spaceflight. For years there was talk at best. Designs like
https://aris.iaea.org/PDF/4S.pdf
have been up in the air for decades but nobody was serious about getting approval and building them. Oklo ought to be proud to be the first to get shot down, pick themselves up again, and submit a better proposal.
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It's not that the NRC is unfair but it is like private spaceflight. For years there was talk at best. Designs like
https://aris.iaea.org/PDF/4S.pdf
have been up in the air for decades but nobody was serious about getting approval and building them. Oklo ought to be proud to be the first to get shot down, pick themselves up again, and submit a better proposal.