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Re:Nuclear Energy Project in Idaho Is Canceled by Gravityloss on Thursday November 09, 2023 @02:48PM (#38210131)
As a civilization we have been capable of that multiple times in multiple places. Those technologies are not lost. In fact there are now new reactor projects that are simplified from older ones that could be built potentially fast.

People generalize a lot! There are a large variety of nuclear reactors. Even construction projects of the same design vary somewhat.

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Re:Nuclear Energy Project in Idaho Is Canceled by cinntaile on Thursday November 09, 2023 @02:58PM (#38210294)
Potentially being the key word here. They don't seem to succeed when going from theory to reality so far.
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Re:Nuclear Energy Project in Idaho Is Canceled by Gravityloss on Thursday November 09, 2023 @05:46PM (#38212470)
That's not true, there have been successes.
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Re:Nuclear Energy Project in Idaho Is Canceled by cinntaile on Friday November 10, 2023 @01:25AM (#38215728)
There haven't been any successes in the west in the last 30-40 years as far as I know, but if you have any recent counter examples I'm all ears.
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Re:Nuclear Energy Project in Idaho Is Canceled by Gravityloss on Friday November 10, 2023 @06:34AM (#38217656)
France and Japan etc. Older than 30 years for sure. But certainly shows that our civilization is capable of it.
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