LordNothing, on 29 July 2022 - 04:55 PM, said:
im sure the hippies didnt help with their fear mongering. new technologies have growing pains and 3 mile island is one of them. sort of like how every air disaster improves the safety of aircraft. every nuclear disaster teaches something about safety as well.
3 mile island taught us that nuclear is serious business.
chernobyl taught us that containment domes should be mandatory (and that you don't let soviets near the thing).
fukashima taught us not to build nuclear reactors in a tsunami zone.
Depends who really learned.
EPR, like that used in the much overdue, overcost Finnish plant, kinda sucks to put it bluntly. Its first ever running implementation were in China, with two nuclear plants, running into issues. There are also troubled EPR projects in the UK, now with Chinese involvement, and the UK itself approved Hualong design for its use. The two new nuclear plants in the US, both in Georgia, are also beset with cost overruns and delays.
87% of new nuclear reactor projects are of Chinese and Russian design. Whatever is left goes to India and South Korea.
https://www.cnbc.com...0on%20Thursday.
https://world-nuclea...-worldwide.aspx