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		percevalve on July 14, 2022 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Saskatchewan, Ontario to roll out mini-nuclear rea... For the EPR, you also had the Chinese Units, Taishan, that were started after but got connected to the grid before. https://pris.iaea.org/pris/CountryStatistics/ReactorDetails.... Other significant projects to check is the building by KEPCO and ENEC, I think BARAKAH-1 was the first unit connected: https://pris.iaea.org/PRIS/CountryStatistics/ReactorDetails.... There are a lot of teams working on this issue, like Oklo: https://oklo.com

wnkrshm on July 14, 2022 [–]

There are some wonderful stories with the EPR, like falsification of material analysis records [0].

[0] https://www.french-nuclear-safety.fr/asn-informs/news-releas...

percevalve on July 15, 2022 | [–]

This is for a completely different reactor, "Equipment intended for the Jules Horowitz research reactor" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jules_Horowitz_Reactor

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