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From your link, > TerraPower must still complete construction, submit an operating license application, and satisfy all applicable safety and regulatory requir
by capnrefsmmat 4mo ago
From your link,
> TerraPower must still complete construction, submit an operating license application, and satisfy all applicable safety and regulatory requirements before loading fuel and beginning operations.
- nine_k 4mo agoBasically the built plant must pass a rigorous inspection before starting operations. But for that the plant needs to be built!
- bronson 4mo agoAnd built well, which has been a source of big delays in the past.
- devmor 4mo agoAnd I’m sure no corners will be cut!
- preisschild 4mo agoMany times the reason for this was that the regulations changed during the build necessitating parts to be rebuilt
- bronson 3mo agoSounds like people building it found a way to cheap out that was technically within regulation.
- AngryData 4mo agoI mean that doesn't sound like very big hurdles. It is an inspection of a completed reactor to make sure it wasn't managed and built like trash. Every factory and business and powerplant is subject to an inspection before it can operate. Even most residentual homes require an inspection before people can live in it.
- lazide 4mo agoIt is what typically all reactors get stuck on for years - or often decades.
- mpweiher 4mo agoI doubt it. There used to be separate construction and operating permits, and sometimes you got the building permit, built the plant and then never got the operating license. This has now been streamlined with a combined construction/operating license. If you built what you promised to build, you get to operate it.
- devmor 4mo agoCan you give an example of a plant that has been built under this streamlined process and what kind of timeline it had? The only recent nuclear buildouts that I personally have knowledge of are expansions to existing plants and thus have a lower barrier to get going.
- lazide 4mo agoSince it was just released, that’s pretty hard to do eh? I’m familiar with the reactors built on other previous ‘expedited’ processes that ended up being anything but fast. We’ll see how it goes eh?