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.

  • @[email protected]
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    181 year ago

    what does built “from scratch” mean? Just a more emphatic way of saying “built?” Or that it wasn’t repurposed out of some already built building?

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      1 year ago

      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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        41 year ago

        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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          41 year ago

          “If you wish to make a nuclear reactor from scratch, you must first invent the universe” -carl sagan

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        -11 year ago

        I know almost nothing about nuclear power other than it’s the most efficient, so you must be right lol 👍

    • Chris Ely
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      21 year ago

      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.

      @Uno