Whatever Happened to the Small Modular Reactor Revolution? | OilPrice.com
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Governments and private companies continue to invest heavily in small modular reactors despite delays, licensing challenges, fuel supply constraints, and slower-than-expected commercial deployment.
  • ryathal@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    8 days

    The turbine is about equally difficult to make as the reactor, it doesn’t make sense to waste one on a reactor that can’t max it out. Small modular reactors work great for boats though, where size is a bigger factor, and the Navy is actually pretty good at making them.

  • TryingSomethingNew@sopuli.xyzEnglish
    9 days

    Don’t worry, the US is giving tech bros nuclear materials. What can go wrong. Go wrong. G-g-g-o wrongfggggggg

  • mrbn@lemmy.caEnglish
    8 days

    Construction has begun on the Western world’s first grid-scale Small Modular Reactor (SMR), though small is not what comes to mind, considering that the machine will fit on two soccer fields.

    Target date for completion is 2030.

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  • bryndos@fedia.io
    8 days

    I’ve never seen the waste management on these. I guess you just dump it all in Flint, MI or somewhere else that can’t afford lawyers.