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YES, It always has been
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The Next Nuclear Plants Will Be Small, Svelte, and Safer | WIRED
The Nuclear Regulatory Commission has been reviewing NuScale’s design since 2016; if the commission gives its blessing, the company can finally start building the first commercial reactor of its kind. The review process is brutal—NuScale submitted a 12,000 page technical application—and will likely stretch on for at least another year. But the company has already secured permission to build its first 12-reactor plant at the Idaho National Laboratory, which may start supplying power to communities in Western states as soon as 2026.
I’m pretty sure the dinosaurs died out when they stopped gathering food and started having meetings to discuss gathering food
A bookshop is one of the only pieces of evidence we have that people are still thinking
OldBushie
Supporter"Is this the silver bullet"?
YES, It always has been
You only get one shot at life, Aim well
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Can it be insured? If not, it can't be built.
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SubscriberFirst one is being built in IDAHO, If normal nuclear plants can be built, this is a shoe in.Originally Posted by DiscoMick
I’m pretty sure the dinosaurs died out when they stopped gathering food and started having meetings to discuss gathering food
A bookshop is one of the only pieces of evidence we have that people are still thinking
Master
No Nuclear power plants in the world are commercially insured. They all are underwritten by their respective countries Government and paid for by tax payers. The same as the disposal of waste. Paid for by the Govt. It's another one of their hidden perks.
It's too late for them now to come up with another design as the cannot sell kW as cheaply as renewable by an order of magnitude at least.
Mike
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SubscriberThe cost advantage of nuclear energy. Apparently. EDIT. the real reason we will never go nuclear
The economic pros of nuclear energy
I’m pretty sure the dinosaurs died out when they stopped gathering food and started having meetings to discuss gathering food
A bookshop is one of the only pieces of evidence we have that people are still thinking
I think some more research would reveal that nuclear has the highest construction costs, higher even than coal and gas, and much higher than renewables.
Nuclear can rarely get insurance and requires massive taxpayer underwriting.
The world has moved towards privatised electricity generation so that means nuclear can't get insurance so can't be built without government subsidy.
Operating costs for renewables are lower than for nuclear, coal and gas because sunlight and wind are free.
Wizard
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Nuclear must have improved since the designs of the 60's went wrong. I have a hard time believing that we can't make heaps better nuclear plants these days. Then again operating costs are just one aspect. I know nuclear waste is a "hot" topic, pun intended... but perhaps we should look at how utterly polluting "renewables" are. The cadmium, lead and what not in solar panels (not to mention the bloody lithium batteries in all those e-vehicles and what not) are not very environmentally save nor are those items very recyclable. Sure, the aluminium frame and the glass plate on your solar will be, the doped silicon wafers afaik are not.
Not as dangerous as radioactive waste though.
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