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January 14, 2025 at 10:16 AM
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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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November 28, 2024 at 9:00 PM
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Too bad nuclear isn't prioritizing affordability, safety, and reliability.

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February 26, 2026 at 9:05 PM
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drcrlsnpe.bsky.social DrCrlsnPEJD @drcrlsnpe.bsky.social · Feb 11
Internal Westinghouse document warned South Carolina nuclear reactor construction was ‘at risk’ in 2011. www.postandcourier.com/business/int...
Screenshot Post and Courier 9/2017: Internal Westinghouse document warned South Carolina nuclear reactor construction was 'at risk' in 2011. Screenshot of title of internal Westinghouse document, "The Case for Paradigm Shift."
September 12, 2025 at 1:25 AM
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drcrlsnpe.bsky.social DrCrlsnPEJD @drcrlsnpe.bsky.social · Sep 19
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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April 15, 2026 at 4:22 PM
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Nuclear blaming Greens (or NRC or…) for cost overruns and delays is like Riley Gaines blaming trans folk for coming in 5th.

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drcrlsnpe.bsky.social DrCrlsnPEJD @drcrlsnpe.bsky.social · Nov 28
"The failure of the U.S. nuclear power program ranks as the largest managerial disaster in business history, a disaster on a monumental scale." Forbes, 2/11/1985
Forbes cover February 1985. Following text in shape of cooling tower. “Nuclear Follies. The failure of the U.S. nuclear power program ranks as the largest managerial disaster in business history, a disaster on a monumental scale. The utility industry has already invested $125 billion in nuclear power, with an additional $140 billion to come before the decade is out, and only the blind, or the biased, can now think that most of the money has been well spent. It is a defeat for the US consumer and for the competitiveness of US industry, for the utilities that understood the program and for the private enterprise system that made it possible. Without even recognizing the risks, the US electric power industry understood a commitment bigger than the space program ($100 billion) or the Vietnam War ($111 billion)…" ...and, in little more than a decade, transformed what elsewhere in the word is a low-cost, reliable, environmentally impeccable form of energy into a power source that is not only high in cost and unreliable, but perhaps not even safe. The scale of U.S. nuclear power program's collapse is appalling: 75 plants canceled since 1978, including 28 already under construction, with another half-dozen or so cancellations in prospect. Even in its death throes, the U.S. nuclear program looks ambitious: 16 new stations put into commercial operation since 1979, another 3 this past year, and 40 more units by the end of the decade. By that time nuclear power will account for something like 20% of the U.S.' total generating capacity up from 14% today. Altogether, these stations will be producing 129, 725 megawatts, more than the nuclear capacity of France, West Germany, Japan and the Soviet Union put together. But that's it. Once these plants are completed, the U.S. nuclear power program is at an …
April 10, 2026 at 5:16 PM
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"When done properly"?

Damn those "ridiculous, unreasonable roadblocks."

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drcrlsnpe.bsky.social DrCrlsnPEJD @drcrlsnpe.bsky.social · Aug 22
Nuclear took itself out as a pre2050 solution to climate change.

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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
April 6, 2026 at 4:08 PM
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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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October 7, 2025 at 5:24 PM
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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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drcrlsnpe.bsky.social DrCrlsnPEJD @drcrlsnpe.bsky.social · Nov 28
Westinghouse "design is often not constructible." (BechtelAudit, p61)
https://www.postandcourier.com/news/audit-highlighted-problems-with-south-carolina-nuclear-project-a-year-before-cancellation/article_9ac96112-9185-11e7-9979-977331ac2233.html Screenshot "The Post and Courier" 9/2017: Audit highlighted problems with South Carolina nuclear project a year before cancellation. Screenshot title page of Bechtel audit report
July 10, 2025 at 6:39 PM
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August 30, 2026 at 9:48 AM
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January 22, 2025 at 7:25 PM
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drcrlsnpe.bsky.social DrCrlsnPEJD @drcrlsnpe.bsky.social · Feb 11
Westinghouse "design is often not constructible." (#BechtelAudit, p61)

www.postandcourier.com/news/audit-h...
Screenshot "The Post and Courier" 9/2017: Audit highlighted problems with South Carolina nuclear project a year before cancellation. Screenshot title page of Bechtel audit report.
October 20, 2025 at 3:47 PM
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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.

#NuclearIsItsOwnWorstEnemy
drcrlsnpe.bsky.social DrCrlsnPEJD @drcrlsnpe.bsky.social · Apr 3
“They were clueless.”

"Since Shaw Modular had no welding standard in place, it needed to hire a degreed welding engineer with nuclear experience. 'I asked about it, and they laughed at me.'”

—Christopher Hartz, former nuclear procurement QA manager, Shaw Nuclear Services
Witness to the Origins of a Huge Nuclear Construction Flop
A former Shaw quality-assurance manager saw trouble in 2010.
www.enr.com
June 1, 2025 at 8:16 PM
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ketanjoshi.co Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · May 2
"In 2023, the survey showed 51% of people supported Australia’s ban on nuclear energy. But in 2024 that rose to 59%"

Australia's nuclear advocacy community really thought they were onto a winner but they've done way, way more damage to themselves than any anti-nuclear campaign ever could
Australians’ support for nuclear power ban rises despite Dutton’s best efforts to sell atomic future, survey finds
Only one in two Liberal party voters are in favour of lifting the national ban, according to the National Climate Action Survey
www.theguardian.com
May 4, 2025 at 11:02 PM
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"The Left must abandon outdated, evidence-free 1970s antinuclear ideology, neo-Malthusian degrowth…" blah, blah, blah.

How different nuclear's prospects would be if even one AP1000 or EPR or NuScale or Natrium or Oklo or mPower or… had been completed on time, on budget.

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bennelson.bsky.social Ben Nelson @bennelson.bsky.social · Aug 20
A new book opposing nuclear energy unintentionally highlights how 1970s opposition was a dead end for the Left. By examining contemporary arguments, it becomes clear that this historic stance has hindered climate progress and energy reliability. jacobin.com/2024/08/clim...
For and Against Climate Progress in the Atomic Garden
A new book opposing nuclear energy unintentionally highlights how 1970s opposition was a dead end for the Left. By examining contemporary arguments, it becomes clear that this historic stance has hind...
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August 20, 2024 at 7:43 AM
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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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drcrlsnpe.bsky.social DrCrlsnPEJD @drcrlsnpe.bsky.social · Nov 28
Westinghouse "design is often not constructible." (BechtelAudit, p61)
https://www.postandcourier.com/news/audit-highlighted-problems-with-south-carolina-nuclear-project-a-year-before-cancellation/article_9ac96112-9185-11e7-9979-977331ac2233.html Screenshot "The Post and Courier" 9/2017: Audit highlighted problems with South Carolina nuclear project a year before cancellation. Screenshot title page of Bechtel audit report
September 12, 2025 at 12:38 AM
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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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Sizewell C nuclear power plant costs rise to £38bn
Households will pay £1 a month towards the construction of the UK's second new nuclear power plant.
www.bbc.com
September 21, 2025 at 9:38 AM
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March 15, 2026 at 11:11 PM
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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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drcrlsnpe.bsky.social DrCrlsnPEJD @drcrlsnpe.bsky.social · Apr 29
"$500M"?

Debunked years ago when false claim was "$800M."

NRC Burns, 2015: $800M was mostly designer’s costs to develop/test the design to make sure it would work as planned. www.nrc.gov/docs/ML1531/...

NRC fees are low single-digit % of total reactor development cost. www.gao.gov/products/gao...
NRC Chairman Burns, 2015: $800M was mostly designer’s costs to develop and test the design to make sure it would work as planned. https://www.nrc.gov/docs/ML1531/ML15313A316.pdf GAO, 2015: The AP1000 and ESBWR design certifications "cost about $45M and $69M, respectively, for NRC fees related to pre-application, application, and revision reviews." https://www.gao.gov/products/gao-15-652
May 4, 2025 at 3:20 AM
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Nuclear blaming cost overruns and delays on the NRC is like a drunk driver blaming his car wreck on the DMV.

#NuclearIsItsOwnWorstEnemy
drcrlsnpe.bsky.social DrCrlsnPEJD @drcrlsnpe.bsky.social · Nov 28
Westinghouse "design is often not constructible." (BechtelAudit, p61)
https://www.postandcourier.com/news/audit-highlighted-problems-with-south-carolina-nuclear-project-a-year-before-cancellation/article_9ac96112-9185-11e7-9979-977331ac2233.html Screenshot "The Post and Courier" 9/2017: Audit highlighted problems with South Carolina nuclear project a year before cancellation. Screenshot title page of Bechtel audit report
April 10, 2026 at 8:46 PM
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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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March 13, 2026 at 2:24 AM
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Nuclear thinking advanced nuclear will solve its delay and overrun problems is like a drunk driver thinking all he needs is a new car. ☢️

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April 10, 2026 at 8:48 PM
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And those were the two Nuclear Inc. managed to finish.

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Fourth and final executive tied to failed South Carolina nuclear reactor project sentenced to federal prison
COLUMBIA, S.C. (WCBD) – A fourth and final executive tied to the failed V.C. Summer nuclear facility in South Carolina has been sentenced for misconduct. Jeffrey Alan Benjamin, 62, will spend a yea…
www.counton2.com
August 1, 2026 at 10:41 PM
drcrlsnpe.bsky.social
Fund R&D at R&D levels, but nuclear cut itself out as a pre-2050 solution to climate change.

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November 20, 2024 at 9:30 AM
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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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drcrlsnpe.bsky.social DrCrlsnPEJD @drcrlsnpe.bsky.social · Aug 22
Nuclear took itself out as a pre2050 solution to climate change.

#NuclearIsItsOwnWorstEnemy
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
September 10, 2025 at 8:16 PM