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blue-wave

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Sun Apr 26, 2026, 10:30 AM Apr 26

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Turbineguy

(40,247 posts)
1. Yeah. We want trump appointees running nuclear plants.
Sun Apr 26, 2026, 11:19 AM
Apr 26

Response to Turbineguy (Reply #1)

thought crime

(1,819 posts)
9. Don't worry! There's a New generation of nuclear reactors coming. They're Small! They're Modular! (Okay, Worry.)
Mon Apr 27, 2026, 01:13 PM
Apr 27

From NPR:

The Trump administration has overhauled a set of nuclear safety directives and shared them with the companies it is charged with regulating, without making the new rules available to the public, according to documents obtained exclusively by 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)
2. Hey, we had three mile island where nothing happened.
Sun Apr 26, 2026, 12:49 PM
Apr 26

LudwigPastorius

(15,126 posts)
4. Hey, only 119,960 years to go before that Plutonium-239 burns off!
Mon Apr 27, 2026, 12:03 AM
Apr 27

Avoid the rush. Book your vacation in the exclusion zone today!

Rhiannon12866

(259,893 posts)
5. Inside Chornobyl, 40 years after the world's worst nuclear disaster - PBS NewsHour
Mon Apr 27, 2026, 01:08 AM
Apr 27

Response to Rhiannon12866 (Reply #5)

Rhiannon12866

(259,893 posts)
7. Thanks!
Mon Apr 27, 2026, 03:33 AM
Apr 27

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)
8. The most horrible lesson we learned from this...
Mon Apr 27, 2026, 09:57 AM
Apr 27

... is that humans living their ordinary lives do more damage to the natural environment than fallout from the worst possible sort of nuclear accident.

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