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Nuclear sucks because the regulatory environment is totally insane. If the NRC went over the regulations with a bit of common sense, reactors would be dramatic
by Workaccount2 1y ago
Nuclear sucks because the regulatory environment is totally insane.
If the NRC went over the regulations with a bit of common sense, reactors would be dramatically less expensive.
- amanaplanacanal 1y agoPeople say that, but which regulations are the problem? Nobody ever suggests what exact changes need to be made.
- burnt-resistor 1y agoPerhaps they'd like another Three Mile Island, Chernobyl, or Fukushima instead. It's ignorant people who complain about "regulations" as a monolithic, monochromatic evil MacGuffin that exist merely to stop progress rather than encompassing health and safety regulations written in blood and graves. I remember my coworker who had to destructively flame test half of the wire nuts he sold to a nuclear energy concern by verifying they self-extinguished within X seconds. Rigor might be expensive, but lives, health, and peace of mind are worth more even if techbros and billionaires don't think so.
- Workaccount2 1y agohttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cxDd3Whl_9s https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cxDd3Whl_9s I also don't want to give the impression that I watched this one video and know ride around on a high horse. My company has a nuclear division, and while I am not part of it, I am totally aware of the struggles they have.
- amanaplanacanal 1y agoThe president's executive order requires what appears to be a completely overhaul of the NRC by November of next year. I guess we'll see how that goes. Solar, wind, and battery tech are getting so cheap so fast, it's hard to know whether this will be enough to make nuclear economical.