DOE gives $60M for advanced nukes, but industry wants better regs
https://www.utilitydive.com/news/doe-gives-60m-for-advanced-nukes-but-industry-wants-better-regs/522347/
"Without significant regulatory reform, U.S. advanced nuclear technology developers are likely to become discouraged about developing and deploying safer new reactor designs, putting at risk the future of nuclear technology in the United States and the nation's role as a leader in technology innovation," NEI said in a statement this week.aka,...
well, for the last two decades we have spent literally hundreds of millions of DOE grant and research dollars to fund our pipedreams, LLCs, and 401Ks,...
and, well, we never really expected to ever build one of these things anywhere,..
and, well, as we are all fast approaching our Golden Years with fat golden parachutes funded by DOE tax dollars we have opted to cash out, walk out, and chill out and oh by the way,....
it's all the governments fault because the rules always have been, and always will be, too cumbersome to make any of our thermal neutron unicorns, rainbows and fuzzy bunnys probable,...
but, thanks for the R&D checks,....
now, where did that Captain say the First Mate tied up my Sundancer 520?!?!?!?!