NuScale and its primary partner give up on its first installation.

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

  • PeterPoopshit@lemmy.worldEnglish
    76·
    10 months ago

    3 people got killed by one of these like 60 years ago due to blatant design flaws that could’ve been solved. This means they can never exist again.

    • rambaroo@lemmy.worldEnglish
      6·
      10 months ago

      That is massively understating the damage Chernobyl did as well as the number of people who died from cancer and radiation poisoning, to the point of sheer dishonesty.

    • Buddahriffic@lemmy.worldEnglish
      12·
      10 months ago

      Also remember that time that they wanted to test a safety system so they disabled the other safety systems and the protocols said they should have shut down the reactor instead of doing the test due to other factors but they did the test anyways and it exploded? Oh and their “emergency off” button was actually an “emergency increase power then off” button. Clearly there’s no way to do these things safely.