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 jeromegv on Wednesday December 27, 2023 @10:28PM (#38789665)

It’s an extremely poor example. It’s a multi phase project and for many years government didn’t provide any funding as it was not a priority. It’s not like they were actively trying to build it for 47 years, they built multiple small parts of it through multiple phases but they were never trying to build the whole thing. It was just not anything important to complete.

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Re:First new U.S. nuclear reactor since 2016 is now in opera... by adastra22 on Wednesday December 27, 2023 @11:01PM (#38789889)

The criticism still stands. It should not take 47 years from recognition that a road is needed to actually building it.

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Re:First new U.S. nuclear reactor since 2016 is now in opera... by KMag on Thursday December 28, 2023 @01:17AM (#38790624)

What if sections will be needed now, and it's easy enough to make a plan to eventually connect all of the parts as needed? Get the zoning work done to prevent anything over 2 stories tall being built over the planned route, and then build the various sections as needed/as budget is available. I'm not saying that's what happened, but I can see smart, modular, as-needed infrastructure projects being drawn out over decades like this.

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Re:First new U.S. nuclear reactor since 2016 is now in opera... by phatfish on Thursday December 28, 2023 @04:27AM (#38791648)

The irony of software engineers complaining about a project not being feature complete and on time.

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Re:First new U.S. nuclear reactor since 2016 is now in opera... by adastra22 on Thursday December 28, 2023 @05:03AM (#38791867)

When a project that should take 5 months takes 500 months, this isn't a case of the pot calling the kettle black.

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