Great, more power at unrealistic prices in… 2045.
this post was submitted on 24 May 2025
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What prevents the approval of the reactors, is it bad designs or just a case of planning permission delays because people don't want a nuclear reactor built. Surprised to see Trump being in favour as nuclear as he normally seems to favour the oil industry.
- they are really expensive
- have a history of costing far more than promised
- nuclear executives have a history of dishonesty, so you need to check absolutely every detail
they are really expensive have a history of costing far more than promised
Because every plant is essentially a unique prototype in a field with very few experienced experts. Building nuclear plants makes building future nuclear plants cheaper and increases the pool of nuclear experts in the country.
Individually alot of his ideas could be good, with proper care and planning. Instead he does them all at once without any sort of considerations, its wild to witness this train wreck.
Idk how tariffs work but I like to imagine in our economic toolbox they are like a hammer. Can a hammer be useful, absolutely. But is it useful to throw 10,000 hammers at the rest of the world like trump is doing?
I am sure making consideration of climate change impacts illegal during the approval process won't have adverse consequences. When the water used to cool the reactor dries up, we'll have plenty of money and foresight to just pump it in from somewhere else, right?
Cooling water is generally cycled.
Not really, those massive cooling towers use evaporative cooling and that water just goes poof
This is the Titan Submersible all over again, only on a devastatingly national level.
Let me elaborate. I think nuclear power is a great option, but not if you’ve removed real scientists and proper engineers. Trump doesn’t like scientists and engineers. Or anyone really, that doesn’t agree with him.
Nuclear power is the safest, cheapest and cleanest only because we have learned so many painful mistakes and that every new reactor is built with only safety in mind.
No discard all that so we make steam now!
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Quite glad that America is far away from where I am.
great idea, nothing wrong will come from pressuring the nuclear power regulators. nuh uh.
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