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Re:The first Gen III+ Nuclear plant begins fuel loading by bombcar on Friday October 14, 2022 @02:35PM (#33207222)
If nobody wants take it over, the government steps in and tries to find a buyer (basically read: promises to subsidize someone who will take it on hand).

If that fails, the government sometimes will setup its own company to take it in hand either at the state or federal level (this would almost certainly be federal).

Failing that, the projects would cease.

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Re:The first Gen III+ Nuclear plant begins fuel loading by kelnos on Friday October 14, 2022 @02:37PM (#33207249)
Ah, good to know there are a couple layers of fallbacks.

I guess there's still one failure mode: project is completed and plant is running, and then the manufacturer goes out of business. I guess in that case the government would have to act as a backstop no matter what, and worst-case they would just operate until the plant could be decommissioned.

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