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Turbineguy
(40,247 posts)Response to Turbineguy (Reply #1)
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thought crime
(1,819 posts)From NPR:
The sweeping changes were made to accelerate development of a new generation of nuclear reactor designs.
https://www.npr.org/2026/01/28/nx-s1-5677187/nuclear-safety-rules-rewritten-trump
The DOE is boosting the development of Small Modular Reactors (SMR) that will allow most of the reactor construction to be done in a manufacturing plant, then shipped to an operating site. This will drastically lower overall cost. A small reactor could power a single facility like a data center. Many more reactors means many more potential points of failure, and the potential is raised if safety rules are relaxed.
twodogsbarking
(19,536 posts)LudwigPastorius
(15,126 posts)Avoid the rush. Book your vacation in the exclusion zone today!
Rhiannon12866
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Rhiannon12866
(259,893 posts)As I said in a reply, when I joined my grandmother and her peace group in the late '80s on the initial trip to visit her town's "sister town" high in the Caucasus Mountains in the USSR, we were scheduled to visit Kiev, but then Chernobyl happened and we visited Tbilisi, the capital of then-Soviet Georgia, instead. And knowing what I know now, I'm sorry that we never made it to Kiev.
hunter
(40,900 posts)... is that humans living their ordinary lives do more damage to the natural environment than fallout from the worst possible sort of nuclear accident.