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First planned small nuclear reactor plant in the US has been canceled (arstechnica.com)
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First planned small nuclear reactor plant in the US has been canceled::NuScale and its primary partner give up on its first installation.

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[–] PeterPoopshit@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (2 children)

3 people got killed by one of these like 60 years ago due to blatant design flaws that could've been solved. This means they can never exist again.

[–] rambaroo@lemmy.world 6 points 2 years ago

That is massively understating the damage Chernobyl did as well as the number of people who died from cancer and radiation poisoning, to the point of sheer dishonesty.

[–] Buddahriffic@lemmy.world -1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Also remember that time that they wanted to test a safety system so they disabled the other safety systems and the protocols said they should have shut down the reactor instead of doing the test due to other factors but they did the test anyways and it exploded? Oh and their "emergency off" button was actually an "emergency increase power then off" button. Clearly there's no way to do these things safely.

[–] PeterPoopshit@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

I was talking about the one that exploded in Idaho. It was a "small" reactor. The control rods had to be adjusted by hand. Clearly there was nothing they could have done instead to avoid human error /s

[–] Buddahriffic@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago

Lol I wasn't familiar with that one.

But my point was that even the big ones that have had big failures were caused by dumb shit that was entirely avoidable. All three of the famous ones could be designed away in new reactors.