Comment on Texas becomes leading test ground for small nuclear reactors

• Kayday@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  That’s what the NRC is for.

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  • HumbleExaggeration@feddit.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    And they have enough people to maintain and inspect the hundreds of thousands of reactors that are going to be built, if those small reactors work?

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    • acosmichippo@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      not hundreds of thousands. they are too expensive to be that common.

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    • Kayday@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Well they don’t do any maintenance. And considering the plant only gets built if the NRC says so, I think they’ll manage. NRC doesn’t fuck around. It’s also not a good look to Trump’s base to deregulate nuclear safety; they’re historically the ones more worried about that.

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    • FlexibleToast@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      The US has the most amount of data centers at ~5500. Not even anywhere close to hundreds of thousands.

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    • UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Nonsense. We can just let the Free Market handle it

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  • Deceptichum@quokk.au ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Haha that’s a good joke.

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