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> The reason for the long and expensive construction has a lot to do with the people opposing the construction! We could build these reactors so much more cheap
by lamontcg 3y ago
> The reason for the long and expensive construction has a lot to do with the people opposing the construction! We could build these reactors so much more cheaply and quickly (and more safely!) if we decided to!
Citation required.
Another explanation is that is that they're so complicated and expensive that it results in the people involved in managing the construction being incentivized to make it more expensive. They to siphon off as much as possible, empire build and collect more power for themselves by spending more money. And if they come up with more possible risks to mitigate, they sell a more complex and costly system and get more money, while the people doing oversight don't want to be the one that said okay to not mitigating a risk that causes a major problem down the line--they're so complicated that the safest butt-covering is to just spend the money.
All of that is just organic, free-range American middle-management capitalism at work. No hippies required to make it expensive.
- nine_k 3y agoTake a look at California, at non-nuclear large construction projects. Do you think that the pervasive delays and cost overruns have nothing to do with many forces actively opposing (almost any) construction projects? Do you e.g. think that costs and delays of building a railway have much to do with inherent expenses and complexities of railway technology?
- lamontcg 3y agoA lot of that has to do with pure NIMBYism and regulatory capture, and the bulk of the cost overruns are just contractors extracting what they can. Environmentalists are a useful weapon for them, and someone to conveniently blame. If you got rid of those laws it wouldn't get significantly cheaper.
- lenkite 3y agoHow on earth is the US Navy managing its fleet of >64 nuclear powered submarines ?
- natmaka 3y agoThose reactors are small (compared to those exploited by the electronuclear industry), fully opaque (not monitored by the public, enabling various tricks and mishaps hiding), associated budgets are huge (totally out of the range of industrial civilian equipment), some of the main challenges (cooling down the reactor) is way more difficult (they are embarked into ships/subs, which are surrounded by vast amounts of water)...