• moomoomoo309@programming.dev
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    1 year ago

    In France. They standardized the designs so each one isn’t a one-off and they trained more people to work in the field.

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      indeed. just order like 100 SMRs and all the problems go away. problem is the psychos would rather build gas plants and fund dictators

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      Those are not at all cheap and are subsidized by enrichment for weapons purposes.

      France is trying to extend their service lifetime beyond what they were designed for because they can’t face the bill to replace them with newer reactors.

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        Those are not at all cheap and are subsidized by enrichment for weapons purposes.

        they aren’t, and the whole anti nuclear power movement is just people who don’t understand science not being able to tell the difference between a bomb and a power plant. I mean science education wasn’t that great in midcentury america but today we can easily know better