First U.S. nuclear reactor built from scratch in decades enters commercial operation in Georgia::ATLANTA — A new reactor at a nuclear power plant in Georgia has entered commercial operation, becoming the first new American reactor built from scratch in decades.

  • Wren
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    4311 months ago

    That or the fear-mongering talking points. That’s what caused our local power plant to be decommissioned, and now those same people are complaining about how much their electrics cost now.

    • @[email protected]
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      1011 months ago

      The old soviet legacy. And a bit of actual disasters and from the 2 significant ones (hiroshima and chernobyl) half are beacuse of the soviets.

        • @[email protected]
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          311 months ago

          on a side notw how people have dies from fukushima in the years since and how many have died from coal? Also you can compare the number of long term health problems

          • @[email protected]
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            111 months ago

            Doesn’t matter. Bad news at the time was enough to scare people for the next 30 years.

    • EuphoricPenguin
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      711 months ago

      Heck, even my college Sociology textbook from OpenStax basically has nuclear fear-mongering baked into one of the later sections.