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Re:BYU profs create new nuclear reactor to produce nuclear e... by ncmncm on Friday October 07, 2022 @05:07AM (#33118982)
The civil nukes have all been massively subsidized by military usage. There is no way a purely civil program could have shouldered those costs. And even the civil program is, separately, massively subsidized. Again, no civil plant could afford to operate without.
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Re:BYU profs create new nuclear reactor to produce nuclear e... by Manuel_D on Friday October 07, 2022 @05:56PM (#33127358)
Incorrect. Plenty of nuclear programs did not receive subsidies from military usage. South Korea, Japan, Sweden, and Belgium for instance all have significant nuclear power development but no nuclear weapon programs.
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Re:BYU profs create new nuclear reactor to produce nuclear e... by ncmncm on Friday October 07, 2022 @11:44PM (#33129622)
"Military" does not, by itself, imply nuclear weapons.
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