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When I first read the titile, I thought that the US is going to have to build A LOT to triple global production. Then it occured to me that the author means the US is pledging to make deals and agreements which enable other countries to build their own. Sometimes I think the US thinks too much of itself and that's also very much part of American branding.

Where are my renewable bros at? Tell me this is bad.

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[–] intensely_human@lemm.ee 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Of course, ramping up production brings an increased risk of manufacturing faults and construction errors in all cases.

I disagree. I think that people make fewer mistakes in each repetition, the more times they repeat an action.

Right now nobody has mastered the building of nuclear plants. As a civilization, we’re on the equivalent of our third day on the new job. If we committed to tripling world supply, that would lead to us mastering it. We’d be at the equivalent of having been at the job for a couple years.

[–] apollo440@lemmy.world 1 points 11 months ago

What does "mastering it" really mean? Usually a big part is learning from mistakes. Which I do not think is something you want to do with nuclear power.