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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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[–] wren@sopuli.xyz 43 points 1 year ago (3 children)

That or the fear-mongering talking points. That's what caused our local power plant to be decommissioned, and now those same people are complaining about how much their electrics cost now.

[–] szczuroarturo@programming.dev 10 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The old soviet legacy. And a bit of actual disasters and from the 2 significant ones (hiroshima and chernobyl) half are beacuse of the soviets.

[–] RedneckFinn@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

*Fukushima

Hiroshima was the freedom bombing disaster

[–] joel_feila@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

on a side notw how people have dies from fukushima in the years since and how many have died from coal? Also you can compare the number of long term health problems

[–] cryball@sopuli.xyz 1 points 1 year ago

Doesn't matter. Bad news at the time was enough to scare people for the next 30 years.

Heck, even my college Sociology textbook from OpenStax basically has nuclear fear-mongering baked into one of the later sections.

[–] joel_feila@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

some people can't help but cut their nose to spit their face