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How different nuclear'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… had been completed on time, on budget.

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October 4, 2024 at 3:55 AM
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How different nuclear's prospects would be if even one AP1000 or EPR or NuScale or… had been completed on time, on budget.

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June 25, 2024 at 11:09 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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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. 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
September 12, 2025 at 12:33 AM
drcrlsnpe.bsky.social
You asked for FOAK regs. You get FOAK regs. 🤦🏽‍♀️

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Screenshot from another social media site. "I'll bet any amount of money that in the end licensing will take even longer and cost more than before. People continue to believe the NRC acts in good faith, they don't. They are and have always been an anti-nuclear regulator."
March 9, 2024 at 6:17 PM
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What if even one AP1000 or EPR or NuScale or Natrium or Oklo or mPower or… had been completed on time, on budget? #NewPerspective

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August 25, 2024 at 6:27 PM
drcrlsnpe.bsky.social
How different nuclear'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 Transatomic or… had been completed on time, on budget.

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November 17, 2024 at 12:57 AM
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What needs to change?

How different nuclear prospects would be of even one AP600, AP1000, EPR, EPR2, VOYGR-12, VOYGR-6, VOYGR-4, Oklo, mPower, eVinci, NANO, Natrium, Transatomic,… had been completed on time, on budget.

#NuclearIsItsOwnWorstEnemy
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. 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
August 11, 2025 at 6:39 PM
drcrlsnpe.bsky.social
Ok, but nuclear still can't build on time, on budget.

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New York Times headline: Environmental Groups Cut Programs as Funding Shifts to Climate Change Subhead: The Natural Resources Defense Council is eliminating its longstanding program promoting nuclear safety and cleanup as donors focus on the climate crisis. https://www.nytimes.com/2023/11/08/us/environment-funding-nuclear-climate-change.html
April 22, 2024 at 6:15 AM
drcrlsnpe.bsky.social
"Until NRC changes"?

"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, 1985.

#NuclearIsItsOwnWorstEnemy
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 complete
June 25, 2025 at 6:20 PM
drcrlsnpe.bsky.social
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 DrCrlsnPE @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
drcrlsnpe.bsky.social
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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December 18, 2024 at 1:55 AM
drcrlsnpe.bsky.social
Nuclear blaming cost its overruns and delays on the NRC is like a drunk driver blaming his car crash on the DMV.

#NuclearIsItsOwnWorstEnemy
Screenshot from another social media site. "I'll bet any amount of money that in the end licensing will take even longer and cost more than before. People continue to believe the NRC acts in good faith, they don't. They are and have always been an anti-nuclear regulator."
October 5, 2024 at 4:06 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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#Pesky

"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, 1985.

#NuclearIsItsOwnWorstEnemy
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 complete
May 29, 2025 at 2:48 PM
drcrlsnpe.bsky.social
Nuclear took itself out as a pre2050 solution to climate change. #NuclearIsItsOwnWorstEnemy

OTOH, renewables deploy.
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 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 13, 2025 at 11:20 PM
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#NuclearIsItsOwnWorstEnemy

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."
December 14, 2024 at 9:58 PM
drcrlsnpe.bsky.social
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… had been completed on time, on budget.

#NuclearIsItsOwnWorstEnemy

OTOH. Renewables deploy. #ClimateEmergency
drcrlsnpe.bsky.social DrCrlsnPE @drcrlsnpe.bsky.social · Nov 30
Total world energy generation (TWh) from nonHydro renewables is approaching double the generation from nuclear.

2022 2023
Ren* 4206.7 4748.4
Nuc 2679.6 2737.7

* nonhydro renewable

www.energyinst.org/statistical-...
Chart. Global Generation (1965-2022). Source: BP Statistical Review of World Energy 2022. Nuclear (TWh) Non-Hydro Renewables (TWh) Nuclear (∆TWh) Non-Hydro Renewables (∆TWh) [Probably should read "(1965-2021)."]
February 26, 2025 at 3:52 PM
drcrlsnpe.bsky.social
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 DrCrlsnPE @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
drcrlsnpe.bsky.social
Even more expensive than the current most expensive power plant ever built.

Nuclear took itself out as a pre2050 solution to climate change. #NuclearIsItsOwnWorstEnemy
May 3, 2024 at 5:12 PM
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drcrlsnpe.bsky.social DrCrlsnPE @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
drcrlsnpe.bsky.social
Corporate bureaucracy, yes.

"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.

#NuclearIsItsOwnWorstEnemy
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 complete
February 21, 2025 at 5:21 PM
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#NuclearIsItsOwnWorstEnemy
drcrlsnpe.bsky.social DrCrlsnPE @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
drcrlsnpe.bsky.social
Blaming nuclear's overruns and delays on the NRC is like blaming a drunk driver's car wreck on the DMV.

#NuclearIsItsOwnWorstEnemy
February 15, 2024 at 10:58 PM
drcrlsnpe.bsky.social
I'm not who you should talk to.

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… had been completed on time, on budget.

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November 20, 2024 at 1:42 AM
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January 22, 2025 at 7:25 PM