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Re:Italy moves to reverse anti-nuclear stance by ben_w on Tuesday March 04, 2025 @09:38AM (#43255217)
True but irrelevant. The construction of new reactors now is unlikely to be in numbers greater than back then.

(Unless new ones are SMR, which is why there's now business interest in SMRs. They may well have numbers large enough to cut costs).

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Re:Italy moves to reverse anti-nuclear stance by throwaway48476 on Tuesday March 04, 2025 @09:46AM (#43255316)
The other issue is that nuclear research has been underfunded for decades. We could have had new safe effective and cost efficient designs.
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Re:Italy moves to reverse anti-nuclear stance by ben_w on Tuesday March 04, 2025 @11:49AM (#43257132)
That is why I say "might, possibly", rather than being firmly yes or no.

R&D is high-variance.

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Re:Italy moves to reverse anti-nuclear stance by throwaway48476 on Tuesday March 04, 2025 @12:45PM (#43257812)
Research is, engineering less so.
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Re:Italy moves to reverse anti-nuclear stance by ViewTrick1002 on Wednesday March 05, 2025 @06:56AM (#43265447)
Nuclear energy has had a massive research advantage over its entire lifetime. It simply never delivers due to being horrifically expensive.

You just keep making empty promises that never work out in reality. Just look at Flamanville 3 being 7x over budget and 13 years late on a 5 year construction schedule.

You want more of that?!?

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