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Re:UK's first small nuclear power station to be built in nor... by DrBazza on Sunday November 16, 2025 @11:02AM (#45946059)
The cost of nuclear is two fold - government bureaucracy, and the lack of commercialization due to decades of misinformation from the eco-groups.

The plans just to build a tunnel under the Thames in the UK in 2025 is over 2 million pages at the moment, imagine what it is for the Sizewell C reactor - the environmental assessment on its own was 44,000 pages.

SMRs are a good middle ground because they can be commercialized and cost can be driven down once the government gets out of the way.

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Re:UK's first small nuclear power station to be built in nor... by lostlogin on Sunday November 16, 2025 @12:06PM (#45946581)
> The cost of nuclear is two fold - government bureaucracy, and the lack of commercialization due to decades of misinformation from the eco-groups.

The misinformation hasn’t occurred in a vacuum. The nuclear industry has been far from transparent in how it operates.

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Re:UK's first small nuclear power station to be built in nor... by fundatus on Sunday November 16, 2025 @05:37PM (#45949106)
> the lack of commercialization due to decades of misinformation from the eco-groups

The lack of commercialization has exactly a single reason: The lack of commercial viability.

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