Political Factoid
General Electric (GE) marketed,
beginning in the 1960s,
the Mark 1 boiling-water reactors
(like the failed reactors* in Japan)
as cheaper, easier, and more profitable
to build, than more-robust reactor designs.
* And 23 similar GE-designed reactors in the United States.
cf.
52,
1108,
520,
997,
657,
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