Took a while to figure out what's happening, apparently the file that changes techs when SE is loaded was silently failing because of the composite aneutronic reactor setting removing the DEC tech.
Manually delete the mod and redownload 1.8.10, it should be fixed now. Should also fix the problem you're having in the other thread.
tried downloading the correct new version, and still having both issues, really strange. Double checked, both server and client has the new .10 both bugs are still happening.