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Re:US regulators will certify first small nuclear reactor de... by ncmncm on Saturday July 30, 2022 @07:38PM (#32291477)
Civil nukes have never had any strong safety culture. The emphasis has always been on cost-cutting, because nukes have always been too expensive to compete fairly in an open market.

Every nuke, ever, has been massively subsidized.

NuScale has been and is still being massively subsidized by the USDoE. It would be wholly uncompetitive with renewables if not so propped up.

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Re:US regulators will certify first small nuclear reactor de... by spopejoy on Saturday July 30, 2022 @09:49PM (#32292383)
> NuScale has been and is still being massively subsidized by the USDoE

Given the longstanding cozy relationship between the NRC, the DOE and industry it's hard to feel confident in this approval being sufficiently stringent, e.g. on worst-case scenarios, waste disposal and the like.

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