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I don't think most people would assess the current state of industrial regulations in the US as having "massive regulatory red tape."

• tyre 3y ago
  Building nuclear plants here is unbelievably difficult compared with similar countries.
  • Moru 3y ago
    That is interesting to know because that is used as an argument in other countries too.
    • pas 3y ago
      So on one hand, the regulatory framework is ridiculously anti-innovation, and changing it is hard, and it's bad bad bad. https://thebreakthrough.org/blog/waiting-on-the-nuclear-regulatory-commission-eight-months-after-receiving-proposed-advanced-reactor-licensing-rule-commission-has-not-acted https://thebreakthrough.org/blog/waiting-on-the-nuclear-regu... but, the big cost overruns and the whole cost disease is because of atrocious change management, lack of standardization and, in general, bad project management. https://www.cell.com/joule/fulltext/S2542-4351(20)30458-X https://www.cell.com/joule/fulltext/S2542-4351(20)30458-X ( https://news.mit.edu/2020/reasons-nuclear-overruns-1118 https://news.mit.edu/2020/reasons-nuclear-overruns-1118 )