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Re:First new U.S. nuclear reactor since 2016 is now in opera... by perihelions on Wednesday December 27, 2023 @03:36PM (#38786426)
And also:

https://www.justice.gov/usao-sc/pr/top-westinghouse-nuclear-... ("Top Westinghouse Nuclear Executive Charged with Conspiracy, Fraud in 16-Count Federal Indictment")

That's the failed project OP blithely elided over as:

- "Two other Westinghouse AP1000 reactors were planned for a nuclear power plant in South Carolina, but construction was halted in 2017."

I'm really, really strongly in favor of nuclear fission power; but the American attempts this decade, and this company in particular, have been a grotesque failure. We really seem to have forgotten how to build things.

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Re:First new U.S. nuclear reactor since 2016 is now in opera... by applied_heat on Wednesday December 27, 2023 @03:41PM (#38786479)
Elon to the rescue ?
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Re:First new U.S. nuclear reactor since 2016 is now in opera... by dexwiz on Wednesday December 27, 2023 @03:58PM (#38786667)
Sure, let his companies blow up a few to learn how to build them. /s

Rockets and cars are one thing. But that risk equation doesn’t work for nuclear.

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Re:First new U.S. nuclear reactor since 2016 is now in opera... by applied_heat on Wednesday December 27, 2023 @04:30PM (#38786989)
He has shook up and revitalized two industries and proven his ability to execute and get people motivated to do significant work with physics and manufacturing and project management that are complex. It doesn’t seem that far fetched to me and aligns with his sustainable energy focus but downvoters seem to disagree!
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Re:First new U.S. nuclear reactor since 2016 is now in opera... by grecy on Wednesday December 27, 2023 @08:42PM (#38789015)
Based on everything he has said to date, he would just cover a few square km with solar. In that one talk he said building enough solar to power the entire world is similar in effort to all the cars that have ever been built. So we can certainly do it.
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Re:First new U.S. nuclear reactor since 2016 is now in opera... by dexwiz on Wednesday December 27, 2023 @09:13PM (#38789210)
Also doesn’t he already own a solar company? Tesla is already a battery company. They do sell industrial cells. But I hear they have a bad track record of not delivering to spec.
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Re:First new U.S. nuclear reactor since 2016 is now in opera... by unleaded on Wednesday December 27, 2023 @11:13PM (#38789967)
He paid other people to shake up and revitalize two industries with his dad's minecraft money and probably told them "why don't you do it this way" a few times
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