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China already has Gen IV commercial reactors, this’ll be rehashed Gen II but without guardrails. On the bright side those bastards take a decade+ to come online, by which time this may have blown over, if not there’ll be worse problems. Also on the bright side, I don’t live in the US.
Golden opportunity for small (thorium so no fission bomb materials) reactor in a container designs to have their day, but noooo. Sigh.
China already has Gen IV commercial reactors, this’ll be rehashed Gen II but without guardrails. On the bright side those bastards take a decade+ to come online, by which time this may have blown over, if not there’ll be worse problems. Also on the bright side, I don’t live in the US.
Golden opportunity for small (thorium so no fission bomb materials) reactor in a container designs to have their day, but noooo. Sigh.
Par for the course: send billions of dollars to friends of those in power, then eventually decide not to care about results.
Yet somehow keeping underprivileged people from starving is “fraud, waste, and abuse”