The Trump administration has secretly rewritten nuclear safety rules

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• Pika@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  I don’t see any company jumping at the rim to implement these though, especially considering the high change that it will just be overturned next party flip. Stuff like this needs bi-partisanship and transparency otherwise it just gets revoked when the party flips again.

  it’s a waste of money until it’s clear both primary parties agree with the change, the fact it had to be done in silent/under the table says everything about the volatility of this change.

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  • Kissaki@feddit.org ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Companies may very well jump at the opportunity. Make a contract with the US government, with revocation cost paid in case of cancellation or regulation/contract basis changes written into it.

    Like how a German minister contracted companies to implement the PKW Maut (Autobahn car fee), which was designed in a way criticized for probably violating EU law. And EU courts later ruled it to be in violation. The companies received 243 million €. (DE Wikipedia)

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  • edible_funk@sh.itjust.works ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    It’s for data centers so they can have their own roughshod nuclear power plants.

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  • thinkercharmercoderfarmer@slrpnk.net ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    They aren’t a waste of money if investors can assume that there won’t be party changes in the future.

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• Sciaphobia@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  Please be a broken clock moment please be a broken clock monent.

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  • MangoCats@feddit.it ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    At least it seems to be about power generation and not weapons.

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• jpreston2005@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  So, they made it a “suggestion” to not contaminate the environment, got rid of a bunch of security requirements (Who needs security at a plant powering our cities anyway??), AND are upping the amount of radiation exposure someone can have before they seek treatment.

  So, basically a bunch of evil shit. huh, whuda’thunk the same people that saw all the increase incidence of new cancers with all the PFAS in our water and food, and decided to roll back regulations on it while introducing a brand-new PFAS laden pesticide for all our crops! Wonderful! We’ll all get cancer and die early deaths because of them!

  They’re making literally everything worse, murdering us in the street, arresting dissidents, covering up their crimes, and stealing billions while they do it.

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  • reksas@sopuli.xyz ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    its like they actively want to hurt your country

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  • Doomsider@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    These reactors have a lot more high grade uranium so they will more likely be targeted by criminals. So it will be more important for security, not less. I swear these people would shoot off all their toes because their shoe is too tight

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• arin@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  Were so fucked

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  • MangoCats@feddit.it ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Yet another reason I am so glad I turned down those DoE job offers in the 80s.

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    • arin@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      Imo taking a job and having some voice in the matter is better

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• rb411@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Worst part of this is nuclear regulation really does need rewritten but this administration somehow finds the worst way to do everything.

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  • Formfiller@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Thank the heritage foundation and the democrats for having no plans other than weak performative bs. They’re not going to reverse any of the damage either

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    • edible_funk@sh.itjust.works ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Dude fuck your both sides horseshit. Blame the republicans for actually doing it and the voters for being too stupid and disengaged to save themselves from obvious damnation.

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• Cethin@lemmy.zip ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  This is going to be unpopular, because it’s Trump doing it, but most of this is probably good. Nuclear power is incredibly safe. It’s also really reliable, and it would be cheap but the dirty energy companies have made laws and regulations that make nuclear power so expensive it can’t compete. We should be lessening regulations around nuclear power. It should be done thoughtfully, which I doubt this is, but it needs to be done.

  For example, the linear no-threshold danger model for radiation exposure is at best wrong, and at worst actively harmful.

  Nuclear power has been purposefully over-regulated to protect energy companies. If it were regulated at a reasonable amount it’d be far more cost-effective than other sources (besides maybe solar and wind). Companies producing and selling dirty energy would go bankrupt incredibly quickly, if they didn’t invest in alternatives, if they’re regulated to the same levels of safety. The energy market has been designed to favor them over nuclear.

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  • nathanjent@programming.dev ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Like many things Trump does, there is a nugget of good smothered with a terribly corrupt and incompetent execution.

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