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Re:US regulators will certify first small nuclear reactor de... by thrown_22 on Saturday July 30, 2022 @08:01PM (#32291640)
> The capital costs of nuclear are so high the current model of marketing electricity doesn’t work.

It doesn't work because nuclear is the only power where all the externalities are accounted for. The average coal plant kills more people with radiation released from burning coal every year than all nuclear accidents combined.

But because it's nicely diffuse no one cares.

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Re:US regulators will certify first small nuclear reactor de... by VintageCool on Saturday July 30, 2022 @11:22PM (#32292851)
Coal is dying in the United States for economic reasons, anyway.
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Re:US regulators will certify first small nuclear reactor de... by thrown_22 on Saturday July 30, 2022 @11:35PM (#32292913)
Yes, because natural gas is cheaper.

Amazing.

When people said we'd be using renewables I somehow didn't think dinosaur farts would be the largest slice of the pie.

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Re:US regulators will certify first small nuclear reactor de... by scaredginger on Saturday July 30, 2022 @09:19PM (#32292185)
Sorry, what radiation is released from coal? Do you mean gas emissions?
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Re:US regulators will certify first small nuclear reactor de... by SECProto on Saturday July 30, 2022 @09:27PM (#32292242)
> what radiation is released from coal?

https://www.epa.gov/radtown/radioactive-wastes-coal-fired-po...

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Re:US regulators will certify first small nuclear reactor de... by scaredginger on Sunday July 31, 2022 @04:31AM (#32294217)
Thanks

The link you provided indicates the level of radiation is negligible, so I'm not sure what your point is.

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Re:US regulators will certify first small nuclear reactor de... by danielheath on Sunday July 31, 2022 @08:56AM (#32295201)
It's higher (IIRC, orders of magnitude higher) than the amount of radiation released by an operating nuclear plant.
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Re:US regulators will certify first small nuclear reactor de... by aperson_hello on Sunday July 31, 2022 @11:31AM (#32296222)
And that number includes all nuclear accidents as well iirc
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