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Re:Google Funding Construction of Seven U.S. Nuclear Reactors by janice1999 on Monday October 14, 2024 @03:58PM (#41841279)
> Bill Gates has a huge stake in his TerraPower nuclear reactor company.

And the deadlines keep getting pushed because the fuel supplier is Russia. Nuclear is not immune to geopolitics or the weather as this comment suggests. It's one of the many issues comments like this ignore - like the spiraling construction costs (even in China), risk trade off when it comes to the catastrophic nature of accidents, viability and enormous costs of clean up and waste storage etc.

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Re:Google Funding Construction of Seven U.S. Nuclear Reactors by preisschild on Tuesday October 15, 2024 @05:01AM (#41846527)
Russia does only the enrichment of the Uranium. The western world already had their own large-scale enrichment facilities and can (and is currently) rebuilding those capacities.
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