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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    • @ilost7489@lemmy.ca
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      Im going to guess it means that it uses a new design of nuclear reactor because I doubt theyre repurposing an old building and slapping uranium in it

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        Oh. I thought like they had to roll and mill all the metal components, that they forged themselves out of ore they dug up in Georgia.

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    • Chris Ely
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      I suspect they mean it’s not just continuing a project that protestors managed to get suspended after Chernobyl or Three-Mile Island or Fukushima.

      A new project with a new reactor design that was actually seen through to the point of producing electricity has been more challenging in the USA than it should ever have been.

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