• Goodie@lemmy.world
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      10 months ago

      That’s the engineering knowledge lost over the last 30 years costed out.

      Making 2 reactors since 95 has some side effects, a lot of the senior engineers since then have retired, standards have changed, and new engineers need to learn.

  • Captain Aggravated@sh.itjust.works
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    10 months ago
    1. I thought it had been longer than that since we commissioned a nuclear power plant, and
    2. Does one every eight years or so feel like a decent rate for building these things?