Comment by legitster

Comment by legitster 8 hours ago

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The biggest barrier to nuclear energy in our country is the linear no-threshold safety model. We know the model is wrong, opens up operators to infinite liability, and since adopting it the nuclear industry has effectively been dead.

Even just a basic common sense threshold would make nuclear more viable overnight.

Moldoteck 7 hours ago

it's one of but not biggest. Biggest is poor supply chain. Try copy rosatom first in their variety of services...

kmeisthax 8 hours ago

Agreed, but I don't think that dumping ALARA will fix nuclear cost. There's still plenty of stuff in a nuclear reactor hot enough that we have to worry about keeping it from being inadvertently released.