First new U.S. nuclear reactor since 2016 is now in operation

Re:First new U.S. nuclear reactor since 2016 is now in opera... by evilos on Wednesday December 27, 2023 @04:31PM (#38786995)

I mean, we know we can build nuclear plants quickly because we've done it before. It is physically possible. China and Korea can still do it today.

If you just mean the bureaucracy is impossible to defeat, it would just take political will. Which we are seeing more and more of recently. The first of a kind build is always slow.

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Re:First new U.S. nuclear reactor since 2016 is now in opera... by pfdietz on Friday December 29, 2023 @10:44AM (#38806107)

"If we did it before, we can do it now" is not anything close to a valid argument.

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Re:First new U.S. nuclear reactor since 2016 is now in opera... by evilos on Friday December 29, 2023 @10:29PM (#38812606)

Depends on what you mean by "we". China is doing it as we speak.

Also, "it's been done before" is a much better argument than "we think we can make these massive and untested changes to our society because my studies say so" like I see constantly from solar/wind maximalists on demand response, mass v2g, hyper connected grid, underground hydrogen battery etc, etc.

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Re:First new U.S. nuclear reactor since 2016 is now in opera... by pfdietz on Tuesday January 09, 2024 @08:52AM (#38926139)

China (and Russia) have lower labor costs. This doesn't transfer to the US, unless you intend we import cheap labor to do the construction.

And even in China, renewables are outpacing new nuclear construction.

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