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By Mitch Berg
Plan to build small, modular nuke plants advances.
By Mitch Berg
Plan to build small, modular nuke plants advances.
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September 26th, 2022 at 7:31 am
There are very few downsides to SMR’s.
They can be factory built and tested, delivered to the site commission ready.
The fuel doesn’t have to be as highly enriched, and can be recycled.
They are much more easily secured.
They are more easily sited, due in large part by their reduced cooling eater requirements.
I expect the degenerates to undermine them at every turn.
September 26th, 2022 at 7:31 am
Cooling water requirements.
September 26th, 2022 at 7:51 am
The goal of environmentalists, and our energy department, is not to provide cheap, plentiful, clean electrical power.
Their goal is to limit production of electrical power and ration it according to political considerations.
There is no place in the current regulatory regime for small, modular nuke plants.
September 26th, 2022 at 9:17 am
The gotcha that I see is that you need regulation to scale with the size of the plant. The huge size of most plants is largely because that’s what it takes to make the regulation affordable. So if the lower density of uranium makes it less regulated, there you go, but if not, they’ve got big problems.