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This is huge, historic even.
by josefritzishere 8mo ago
This is huge, historic even.
- amanaplanacanal 8mo agoMaybe. There is a long road from "approved" to "operational".
- mayama 8mo agoHow is this fundamentally different from Nuscale approval? Like Nuscale this is also brand new design, sodium fast reactor, that hasn't been commercially deployed and is likely to run into usual ballooning budgets and western nuclear construction roadblocks/delays
- dmix 8mo agoIf there’s more than one approval a decade maybe the odds will be higher it won’t be a bloated mess.
- croes 8mo agoOr you just have two bloated messes
- evilos 8mo agoThey're already building this one. Nuscale didn't break ground AFAIK.
- pfdietz 8mo agoNuscale wasn't a sodium fast reactor. Perhaps you phrased that poorly? Nuscale is a PWR.
- mayama 8mo agoI wanted to emphasise both are untested new designs that are likely to run in to troubles, one is SMR and the other Sodium.
- dopa42365 8mo agoYou know what would be even bigger? Building perfectly safe and fine AP 1000s that already exist many times today and can be built whenever you want to. 0 under construction in the US
- fwipsy 8mo agoTrue but additional context: Wikipedia says that two came online in 2023 and 2024, and two more are partially constructed, seeking additional funding to continue. Lots more internationally.
- muldvarp 8mo agoThe two that came online in 2023 and 2024 are hardly a success story if you look at their history.
- mpweiher 8mo agoWestinghouse plans 10 AP-1000 reactors in the USA https://www.world-nuclear-news.org/articles/westinghouse-plans-ten-ap1000-reactors-in-the-usa https://www.world-nuclear-news.org/articles/westinghouse-pla... Yes, it would be better if they had already started, but the ship is turning.
- ViewTrick1002 8mo agoIt is not. The right wing is instead waking up to reality. Apparently they like extremely cheap distributed electricity. Who could have guessed that. Why MAGA suddenly loves solar power The Trump-led attack on solar eases as the right reckons with its crucial role in powering AI and keeping utility bills in check. https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2026/03/02/katie-miller-solar-power-trump/ https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2026/03/02/katie-mil...
- pfdietz 8mo agoSolar also means all those data center jobs (and, really, many general industrial jobs) flow out to low population density red areas.