Technology

That's a bad faith argument

Yes and no. I wrote it in a blunt way, but to deregulate nuclear plants I want to be sure it doesn't impact safety.

Your story does nothing to convince me that the industry is regulated to "strangle" it. You don't say what the pipe did. It may have been part of a coolant loop in which case it's safety critical and having the wrong pipe might mean early failure of joints of connected components. Getting that right could be important and so it's right to be regulated.

The problem is actually that it took far too long to be sure what was right, and that's down to companies / people being far too dogmatic about how they work.

nuclear also comes from the way we manage energy utilities. When a solar farm is built, the builders can just sell it to the utility and walk away, no consideration for decommissioning or waste disposal or environmental considerations.

Well yes, because the site isn't a million tonnes of low level nuclear waste that needs to be dismantled in a controlled fashion, and specially processed. A solar farm might have some toxic metals in the panels when ground-up, but all are quite easily reclaimed. There's no special skill / process needed for anyone dismantling it. It just needs responsible disposal.

Completely different scale of responsibility.