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 edm0nd on Wednesday December 27, 2023 @04:56PM (#38787276)

We can thank the hippies of the 60s and 70s for all their anti-nuclear silliness for making the nuclear industry heavily over regulated.

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Re:First new U.S. nuclear reactor since 2016 is now in opera... by Toutouxc on Wednesday December 27, 2023 @05:11PM (#38787438)

There was also the Soviet nuclear fireworks project in the 80s that didn’t help much.

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Re:First new U.S. nuclear reactor since 2016 is now in opera... by hef19898 on Wednesday December 27, 2023 @10:10PM (#38789568)

And then it took until the 90s to have an actual imopact on policy. It always puzzles how people get even the most basic timelines wrong.

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Re:First new U.S. nuclear reactor since 2016 is now in opera... by _ph_ on Thursday December 28, 2023 @04:05AM (#38791504)

You have to to be honest. They were able to push for stronger regulations not because politics mainly listens to hippies. Stronger regulations were prudent considering the safety levels of the earlier reactor design. Without those regulations, many more cheap, but less safe reactors might have been built. Of which more had gone bad over years.

So yes, if you will, thank the hippies for preventing several nuclear incidents.

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