ATLANTA (AP) — 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.

  • DarkGamer@kbin.social
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    1 year ago

    Ironically, a major reason for this is environmentalists themselves. Nuclear power would be way cheaper if it wasn’t for their panic over things that contain atoms.

    In terms of safety, there’s a big difference between nuclear technologies that fail elegantly like LFTR and more traditional designs that tend to use weaponized isotopes with very long half-lives, and can meltdown and explode when operated incorrectly.

    I can understand why environmentalists look at Chernobyl and Three Mile Island and say, hmm, maybe we shouldn’t do that.