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

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[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Don't waste your time in conservative areas that don't care about clean energy. Michigan now has a mandate to go fossil-free and we want nuclear plants here.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

I just wish they get rid of DTE in SE and make energy a public service like Ann Arbor is planning

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Conservatives have pushed nuclear plenty. Margot Thatcher was one of the first politicians to embrace the science of Global Warming as a way to push nuclear. Opposition to nuclear has usually come from the nuttier corners of the left, like Greenpeace.

This project simply saw the numbers shift and backers started pulling out. Cost and budget overruns are the norm in the industry, and here we go again.