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Trump Orders Faster Build-Out of Nuclear Power Plants | Among a flurry of executive actions, Mr. Trump directed the nation’s nuclear safety regulator to speed up approvals for new reactors. (www.nytimes.com)
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It's worth noting that he also fired many of the staff who know how to ensure that they're actually safe, as well as the staff who would approve financing.

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (2 children)

This isn't even remotely true. Japan builds nuclear reactor in average of 5 years.

Edit for the down vote brigade:

80% or all nuclear reactors go from official planning to commercial production in under 10 years.

The longest process in building a nuclear reactor is cutting through red tape and getting permits cause of all the NIMBY and idiots progating mytha and lies about nuclear that originate in fossil fuels lobby.

Nuclear is the most ecologically friendly and safe power generation source we have until industrial scale fusion gets hammered out.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 20 hours ago

I wouldn't trust the Trump administration with building a styrofoam model of a nuclear reactor.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 22 hours ago (1 children)

How many nuclear reactors did Japan build in the past five years? Ten years? Twenty years? Thirty years?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 hours ago (1 children)

This comment sounds incredibly naive and yet smug at the same time. It’s this same confident stupidity that has led us here in the first place.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 hour ago

Insults instead of any attempt at an argument? Yeah, checks out.