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NNadir

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7. Does it need a full '"approval process?" No, not really, unless we disapprove the coal plants.

Fri Dec 19, 2025, 04:37 PM

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Under what circumstances will any reactor in Wyoming be as dangerous as their coal plants killing people right now?

Whose "approval" does the antinuke community think it needs?

Ed Lie-mans?

Why are nuclear reactors the only power systems that require elaborate "approvals" when they are demonstrably safer than any coal, gas or petroleum planet on the planet.

Oh, I know, let me guess.

There is a bizarre calculus by which millions of deaths from fossil fuel waste are OK just so long as no one ever dies anywhere at any time from radiation exposure from a nuclear plant.

Correct?

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NRC's Rushed Approval of Bill Gates' Experimental Wyoming Nuclear Reactor will Imperil Public Health, the Environment [View all] OKIsItJustMe Dec 11 OP

JHC montanacowboy Dec 11 #1

Right now vast amounts of mercury and lead from coal plants in Wyoming... NNadir Dec 11 #2

You're right of course. OKIsItJustMe Dec 11 #3

Nuclear industry requires subsidies thought crime Dec 11 #4

China's been running a sodium-cooled modular reactor for 2 years now NickB79 Dec 14 #5

Will we be using the same exact design? OKIsItJustMe Friday #6

Does it need a full '"approval process?" No, not really, unless we disapprove the coal plants. NNadir Friday #7

False dichotomy OKIsItJustMe Yesterday #8

One would need to understand something about what nuclear engineering is... NNadir Yesterday #9