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Agreed if what is taking so long makes a difference. I suspect a lot of it is red tape without a real benefit...
by MikeCapone 4y ago
Agreed if what is taking so long makes a difference.
I suspect a lot of it is red tape without a real benefit...
- travisgriggs 4y agoTrust me. A lot of people benefit (jobs, jobs, jobs!) from these delays. :) Former commercial nuclear fuel vendor employee here. I did my time with the NRC being part of my life.
- CabSauce 4y agoIf you can identify red tape without a benefit and useful red tape, let me know. We'll be rich.
- concordDance 4y agoWe can see how useful it is by comparing the 1970s accident and death rate with todays. Doing that we'll find that we're spending over a billion dollars per life saved from radiation poisoning. Which is ludicrously inefficient.
- logifail 4y agohttps://arstechnica.com/science/2020/11/why-are-nuclear-plants-so-expensive-safetys-only-part-of-the-story/ https://arstechnica.com/science/2020/11/why-are-nuclear-plan... "a paper [..] provides some empirical evidence that safety changes have contributed to the cost of building new nuclear reactors. But the study also makes clear that they're only one of a number of factors, accounting for only a third of the soaring costs. The study also finds that, contrary to what those in the industry seem to expect, focusing on standardized designs doesn't really help matters, as costs continued to grow as more of a given reactor design was built."