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Re:First new U.S. nuclear reactor since 2016 is now in opera... by dmd on Wednesday December 27, 2023 @09:12PM (#38789201)
I would be stunned if it took 47 days.
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Re:First new U.S. nuclear reactor since 2016 is now in opera... by doubleg72 on Wednesday December 27, 2023 @10:15PM (#38789593)
But only lasts half that..
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Re:First new U.S. nuclear reactor since 2016 is now in opera... by dmd on Thursday December 28, 2023 @07:07AM (#38792636)
??? I think you’re thinking of US roads, which are generally shoddily constructed and poorly maintained compared to chinese ones.

No, what you meant to say was “and only 47 people died constructing it!”

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Re:First new U.S. nuclear reactor since 2016 is now in opera... by bonestamp2 on Thursday December 28, 2023 @03:10PM (#38797999)
China has had more than 150 modern bridges collapse. Some of them collapsed in less than a year. China is not building or maintaining bridges any better than the US.

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/268466718_Statistic...

https://www.bbc.com/news/av/world-asia-china-19365886

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Re:First new U.S. nuclear reactor since 2016 is now in opera... by adastra22 on Thursday December 28, 2023 @04:17PM (#38798726)
Montreal roads are famously bad.
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