@collectifission

It's just that the nuclear industry has surprisingly good connections to governments.

They receive a *lot* of support in all stages and don't have to assume the huge hidden costs.

When it comes to decommission, accidents or whatever, the companies get nationalized.

Not at all subtle.

https://www.dw.com/en/the-hidden-cost-of-nuclear-power/video-75412400

https://www.hoover.org/research/high-and-hidden-costs-nuclear-power

#Nuclear #NuclearPower

"French small modular reactor developer Blue Capsule Technology has announced the start of construction of ELISE - a full-size test rig for sodium at high temperatures - at Peyrolles-en-Provence, in collaboration with France's CSTI Groupe."

#Nuclear #News

https://www.world-nuclear-news.org/articles/blue-capsule-begins-building-sodium-test-loop

#IRAN STRENGTHENS PROTECTION OF #NUCLEAR FACILITIES: Amid tensions with the #US, Iran is rebuilding facilities destroyed by American and Israeli strikes and strengthening their security, #Reuters reported after analysing changes in satellite images of key facilities in Iran’s nuclear programme. https://www.reuters.com/business/aerospace-defense/satellite-images-show-iran-repairing-fortifying-sites-amid-us-tensions-2026-02-18/

#IRAN STRENGTHENS PROTECTION OF #NUCLEAR FACILITIES: Amid tensions with the #US, Iran is rebuilding facilities destroyed by American and Israeli strikes and strengthening their security, #Reuters reported after analysing changes in satellite images of key facilities in Iran’s nuclear programme. https://www.reuters.com/business/aerospace-defense/satellite-images-show-iran-repairing-fortifying-sites-amid-us-tensions-2026-02-18/

Today in Labor History February 18, 1955: The U.S. launched Operation Teapot at the Nevada Nuclear Test Site. Teapot included 14 nuclear bomb tests. Wasp was the first, detonated on February 18. It had a yield of 1.2 kilotons. During shot Wasp, ground forces participated in Exercise Desert Rock VI. This included an armored task force moving to within 3,000 ft of ground zero, while the mushroom cloud was still growing. From 1945 through 1962, the U.S. conducted 230 atmospheric nuclear weapons tests, with approximately 235,000 military personnel participating. Most were enlisted men, from the navy. However, millions of people were exposed to the fallout from U.S. nuclear weapons tests in the southwest of the U.S. and the Marshall Islands. University of Arizona economist Keith Meyers estimates that radioactive fallout was responsible for 340,000 to 690,000 American deaths from 1951 to 1973.

#workingclass #LaborHistory #nucleartest #nuclearbomb #coldwar #nuclear #radioactive #publichealth #radiation #indigenous #marshallislands #atomic #warcrimes