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Re:US nuclear regulator: 2,868 employees; 47 yrs in operatio... by cycomanic on Wednesday January 26, 2022 @12:46AM (#30082225)
But that is the case already, solar/ wind farms have to have decommission plans, environmental impact plans etc. In fact building a wind farm faces large amount of regulations. I'd argue considering the difference in consequences of failure it's the amount of regulations faced by wind and solar compared to solar is quite unfair.

I also find the arguement that we should put the same regulations on solar wind as on nuclear weird. The consequences of a failure is many orders of magnitude different, the considerations when decommissioning are vastly different etc..

Re:US nuclear regulator: 2,868 employees; 47 yrs in operatio... by CryptoPunk on Wednesday January 26, 2022 @02:16AM (#30082720)
Solar/wind don't have to abide by anywhere near the same amount of regulations as nuclear, your second point notwithstanding.