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"Like hydrogen, small modular nuclear reactors have been seeing a resurgence of
interest lately. Much of that is driven by governmental policies and
investments focusing on the technology. Much of it comes from the nuclear
industry. And inevitably, some comes from entrepreneurs attempting to build a
technology that they hope will take off in a major way, making them and their
investors a lot of money.
Small modular reactors won’t achieve economies of manufacturing scale, won’t be
faster to construct, forego efficiency of vertical scaling, won’t be cheaper,
aren’t suitable for remote or brownfield coal sites, still face very large
security costs, will still be costly and slow to decommission, and still
require liability insurance caps. They don’t solve any of the problems that
they purport to while intentionally choosing to be less efficient than they
could be. They’ve existed since the 1950s and they aren’t any better now than
they were then."
Cheers,
*** Xanni ***
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mailto:xanni@xanadu.net Andrew Pam
http://xanadu.com.au/ Chief Scientist, Xanadu
https://glasswings.com.au/ Partner, Glass Wings
https://sericyb.com.au/ Manager, Serious Cybernetics
