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Re:Nuclear turn green as EU parliament approves new taxonomy by ricardobayes on Thursday July 07, 2022 @08:47AM (#32013355)
The message and reality have always been detached in Europe: almost every physics department I know has a nuclear institute. And funding is there, too. The know-how was never lost in my opinion.
Re:Nuclear turn green as EU parliament approves new taxonomy by touisteur on Thursday July 07, 2022 @01:00PM (#32016480)
I think the engineering know-how isn't there as much. When you haven't actually built a plant in 30 years and all the experienced building and designer engineers have moved on, you don't actually know how to build one any more. I feel the delays on the new projects are mostly caused by lack of experience, lack of clarity on actual risks, a lot of second system syndrome (we're doing it right this time, say the maintainer of the previous systems...) and also more regulatory oversight (which is IMO a gold thing). Let's see how these plants built with far more oversight age better than the old ones.
Re:Nuclear turn green as EU parliament approves new taxonomy by ricardobayes on Thursday July 07, 2022 @01:52PM (#32017156)
Hungary is just building one right now.
Re:Nuclear turn green as EU parliament approves new taxonomy by touisteur on Friday July 08, 2022 @06:23AM (#32025199)
That's great news. I wish the European nuclear industry would have always 10 of these projects running at any time, so we could continuously learn, train and improve ever-so-slightly the designs.