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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.

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Too bad the energy companies essentially never dispose of the waste properly, because it's too expensive if they want to give the huge bonuses to their CEOs and buyback thie stock. Even when doing it "properly" it's basically just making it the problem of future generations once the concrete cracks.

And to reprocess the waste and make it actually safe energy would mean no profit at all plus the tech doesn't exist yet to actually build the reactors to reprocess the waste. I mean we understand the theory, but it would take at least a decade to engineer and build a prototype.

Compare that to investing in battery tech which would have far reaching benefits. And combining that with renewables is much more profitable.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Too bad the energy companies essentially never dispose of the waste properly

To be fair, nuclear waste tends to be disposed of much more properly than coal waste.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago

There's also orders of magnitudes less.