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Is there a concise accessible list or spreadsheet of all the pile-on regs that have accumulated over the years as a result of ALARA?

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Not to my knowledge. I have an informal set of notes. If anybody wants to add a war story to them, pls send them to the substack address. Attribution at yr option.

But the problem goes well beyond specific sillinesses. The whole design philosophy changes from what should we do to what do we have to do to get the regulator's OK. And once you've got that OK, you are stuck with that design. Any fix or improvement restarts a paperwork treadmill.

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Thanks for the quick response. I was just looking for some good and poignant examples to use in my own advocacy efforts when criticizing ALAR. Without citing specific silliness, one often gets a sort of "What's wrong with that?" rejoinder, even if unspoken.

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Sitting in the RE insurance industry risk side one thing is clear ALARA claiming to limit risk actually increases industry risk and thats all we need to know -

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Apr 6, 2023·edited Apr 6, 2023

I could see these changes happening in a western country during a crisis environment like prolonged grid collapses or economic depression. Until then, other sovereign states have the opportunity to leapfrog the US's self-inflicted handicaps. Which countries do you think are capable and independent enough to lead the way? General criteria: cannot be reliant on US for financing or nuclear know how (no 123), must have basic manufacturing and design capabilities, must have self-confidence to know that western countries failed on this.

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Korea is the obvious candidate. So of course the US nuclear establishment is doing everything it possibly can to keep the Koreans from showing the way. Gordian Knot News will be posting a piece on the Westinghouse/Kepco suit shortly.

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Yes and Yes KEPCO using old CE technology with the AP1400 4 pack is eating our lunch and many of the consultants on their team are forcibly retired US Nuclear bods

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We are from the government and here to help (ourselves with enough regulations to make it worth our while and you, pipe down or else).

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Nice Jack - subsidies and efficiency are two different worlds and the former increases risk while the latter decreases it - Maybe the solution is to send a team of Shamans to DC and get them to pray for BIG rain

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A more accurate title might have been "Hell itself is founded on the lie that ALARA leads to safety."

For decades, I've been beating the drum on a monotonous note: it would be far cheaper for the taxpayers if the government reduced burdens instead of providing tax payer money to help relieve some of the imposed burdens.

But we live in a world that has already been created and can only be changed with some hard work. So let's accept the subsidies and work hard to recognize that it is far more profitable to be a low cost, subsidized producer than to be a high cost producer that is barely hanging on because of subsidies.

Use those profits to seek a more favorable public and political climate that enables increased profitability while also enabling a world with abundant, clean, affordable, reliable energy.

We would simply be following in the footsteps of our far more successful and established energy industry ancestors. And, no, I am not talking about wind and solar.

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