First new US nuclear reactor in decades enters commercial operation in Georgia

Re:First new US nuclear reactor in decades enters commercial... by sidewndr46 on Monday July 31, 2023 @05:27PM (#36949099)

In regards to the story about the weld length, that is the process working as intended. As a constructor you don't just decide that something can be a different dimension. And as a engineer you don't just stand "right there" saying "That's no problem". That is how people get killed.

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Re:First new US nuclear reactor in decades enters commercial... by epistasis on Monday July 31, 2023 @05:31PM (#36949148)

I 100% agree that such changes need to be checked, but that's not the point of the anecdote. The point is that this process took months rather than being streamlined.

It is a management failure to make common necessary things, like signing off on small changes, a month long process.

This sort of bad management is endemic throughout the entire build.

Which is to say, the problem isn't the regulation requiring that things are build as designed, the problem is the management structure that makes such changes so uneconomical, combined with the frequency of such changes due to miscommunication between designers and builders.

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