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Re:US regulators will certify first small nuclear reactor de... by ant6n on Sunday July 31, 2022 @04:10AM (#32294112)
Battery backup was good for 8h. Seems pretty risky to me, there are many scenarios thinkable where a power outage for more than 8h could occur.

For example some natural disaster, which across ubiquitously deployed nuclear would occur every day somewhere on earth.

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Re:US regulators will certify first small nuclear reactor de... by spfzero on Sunday July 31, 2022 @05:14AM (#32294380)
>there are many scenarios thinkable where a power outage for more than 8h could occur.

Sure, and they thought of them, which is why they had generators as well as batteries.

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