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50+ years later, and nuclear still hasn't learned this lesson. #FOAKNowFOAKTomorrowFOAKForever
1973. AEC special task force determined 4y could be cut from >9 it now takes to build and license nuclear plants if—
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¶ Standardize a small number of plant designs.
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What's stalling nuclear?
Westinghouse "design is often not constructible." (BechtelAudit, p61)
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Blaming nuclear's delays and overruns on the NRC is like blaming a drunk driver's car wreck on the DMV.
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Screenshot. South Carolina's $9 Billion Nuclear Boondoggle Fits a Global Pattern of Troubles. South Carolina utilities abandoned a pair of troubled reactors projected to cost more than twice their original price. https://spectrum.ieee.org/abandoned-nuclear-reactors-fit-a-global-pattern-of-new-build-troubles
Screenshot. Vogtle project update: Cost likely to top $30 billion. https://www.ans.org/news/article-3949/vogtle-project-update-cost-likely-to-top-30-billion/
Screenshot. The Olkiluoto 3 nuclear power plant in Finland is the second most expensive building in the world. It is second only to the luxury hotel complex Abraj al-Bait in Mecca, Saudi Arabia. https://metropolitan.fi/entry/olkiluoto-ol3-second-most-expensive-building-world
Screenshot. The loading of fuel into the Flamanville 3 EPR reactor in France has been put back again by at least six more months, with the estimated cost at completion increasing by a further EUR500 million (USD530 million), EDF has announced. https://www.world-nuclear-news.org/Articles/Further-delay-to-Flamanville-EPR-start-up
How different nuclear's prospects would be if even one AP600 or AP1000 or EPR or VOYG-12 or VOYG-6 or VOYG-4 or Natrium or BWRX-300 or SMR-160 or SMR-300 or Oklo or mPower or Nano or Radiant or eVinci or… or… or… had been completed on time, on budget.
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How different nuclear prospects would be if even one AP600 or AP1000 or ESBWR or EPR or EPR2 or NuScale or mPower or Natrium or Oklo or Nano or Radiant or BWRX-300 or SMR-160 or SMR-300 or… had been completed on time, on budget.
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OTOH. Renewables deploy. #ClimateEmergency
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How different nuclear's (and the climate's) prospects would be if even one AP600 or AP1000 or EPR or EPR2 or VOYG-12 or VOYG-6 or VOYG-4 or Natrium or BWRX-300 or SMR-160 or SMR-300 or Oklo or mPower or Nano or Radiant or eVinci or… had been completed on time, on budget.
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Who's "we"?
🧵 #NuclearIsItsOwnWorstEnemy
How different nuclear's prospects would be if even one AP600 or AP1000 or EPR or EPR2 or VOYG-12 or VOYG-6 or VOYG-4 or Natrium or BWRX-300 or SMR-160 or SMR-300 or Oklo or mPower or Nano or Radiant or eVinci or… had been completed on time, on budget.
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Too bad nuclear isn't prioritizing affordability, safety, and reliability.
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50 years later, and nuclear still hasn't learned this lesson.
#FOAKNowFOAKTomorrowFOAKForever
1973. AEC special task force determined 4y could be cut from >9 it now takes to build and license nuclear plants if—
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¶ Standardize a small number of plant designs.
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Renewables deploy.
How different nuclear's prospects would be if even one AP600 or AP1000 or EPR or EPR2 or VOYG-12 or VOYG-6 or VOYG-4 or Natrium or BWRX-300 or SMR-160 or SMR-300 or Oklo or mPower or Nano or Radiant or eVinci or… had been completed on time, on budget.
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Blaming nuclear's overruns and delays on the NRC (or the ONR) is like blaming a drunk driver's car wreck on the DMV.
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Radiophobia is not even in the Top10 of nuclear's problems.🧵
Westinghouse "design is often not constructible" (Bechtel Audit, p61).
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Blaming nuclear's overruns and delays on the NRC is like blaming a drunk driver's car wreck on the DMV.
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\Damn those 'Simpsons.'\
"It is astounding that it is only now, as contracts are being signed, that the government has confessed that Sizewell C's cost has almost doubled to an eye watering £38bn - a figure that will only go up."
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How different nuclear's prospects would be if even one AP600 or AP1000 or EPR or VOYG or Natrium or BWRX-300 or SMR-160 or SMR-300 or Oklo or mPower or eVinci or… had been completed on time, on budget.
Nuclear took itself out as a pre2050 solution to climate change.
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How different nuclear's prospects would be if even one AP600 or AP1000 or EPR or VOYG-12 or VOYG-6 or VOYG-4 or Natrium or BWRX-300 or SMR-160 or SMR-300 or Oklo or mPower or eVinci or… had been completed on time, on budget. #NuclearIsItsOwnWorstEnemy
OTOH, renewables deploy. #ClimateEmergency
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How different nuclear's prospects would be if even one AP600 or AP1000 or EPR or EPR2 or VOYG-12 or VOYG-6 or VOYG-4 or Natrium or BWRX-300 or SMR-160 or SMR-300 or Oklo or mPower or Nano or Radiant or eVinci or Transatomic or… had been completed on time, on budget.
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Nuclear took itself out as a pre2050 solution to climate change. #NuclearIsItsOwnWorstEnemy
OTOH, renewables deploy.
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How different nuclear's prospects would be if even one AP600 or AP1000 or EPR or VOYG-12 or VOYG-6 or VOYG-4 or Natrium or BWRX-300 or SMR-160 or SMR-300 or Oklo or mPower or Nano or Radiant or eVinci or… had been completed on time, on budget.
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Blaming nuclear's overruns and delays on the NRC is like blaming a drunk driver's car wreck on the DMV.
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NRC is NOT the problem.
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How different nuclear's prospects would be if even one AP600 or AP1000 or EPR or VOYG-12 or VOYG-6 or VOYG-4 or Natrium or BWRX-300 or SMR-160 or SMR-300 or Oklo or mPower or Nano or Radiant or eVinci or… had been completed on time, on budget.
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Screenshot. South Carolina's $9 Billion Nuclear Boondoggle Fits a Global Pattern of Troubles. South Carolina utilities abandoned a pair of troubled reactors projected to cost more than twice their original price. https://spectrum.ieee.org/abandoned-nuclear-reactors-fit-a-global-pattern-of-new-build-troubles
Screenshot. Vogtle project update: Cost likely to top $30 billion. https://www.ans.org/news/article-3949/vogtle-project-update-cost-likely-to-top-30-billion/
Screenshot. The Olkiluoto 3 nuclear power plant in Finland is the second most expensive building in the world. It is second only to the luxury hotel complex Abraj al-Bait in Mecca, Saudi Arabia. https://metropolitan.fi/entry/olkiluoto-ol3-second-most-expensive-building-world Screenshot. The Olkiluoto 3 nuclear power plant in Finland is the second most expensive building in the world. It is second only to the luxury hotel complex Abraj al-Bait in Mecca, Saudi Arabia. https://metropolitan.fi/entry/olkiluoto-ol3-second-most-expensive-building-world
Screenshot. The loading of fuel into the Flamanville 3 EPR reactor in France has been put back again by at least six more months, with the estimated cost at completion increasing by a further EUR500 million (USD530 million), EDF has announced. https://www.world-nuclear-news.org/Articles/Further-delay-to-Flamanville-EPR-start-up
Nuclear took itself out as a pre2050 solution to climate change.
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What needs to change?
How different nuclear prospects would be of even one AP600, AP1000, EPR, EPR2, VOYGR-12, VOYGR-6, VOYGR-4, Oklo, mPower, eVinci, NANO, Natrium, Transatomic,… had been completed on time, on budget.
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And you're complaining to the wrong people.
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How different nuclear's prospects would be if even one AP600 or AP1000 or EPR or VOYG-12 or VOYG-6 or VOYG-4 or Natrium or BWRX-300 or SMR-160 or SMR-300 or Oklo or mPower or Nano or Radiant or eVinci or… had been completed on time, on budget.
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