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It depends in part on the cost/duration required to scale reactor power up and down. It's apparently being marketed (at least per reading of this article) as a
by beat 7y ago
It depends in part on the cost/duration required to scale reactor power up and down. It's apparently being marketed (at least per reading of this article) as a supplement for when the solar/wind grid is inadequate. That puts it in competition with cached storage (batteries etc), and gas-fired peaker plants as well. And there's a lot of uncertainty here in the market, for multibillion dollar capital investments on low-margin regulated utilities. So it'll be interesting to see what the niche is.
That said, it's still a damn sight better than the usual rounds of how super-expensive old-style light water plants are just fine, or how magic thorium breeders will save us even though no one has built one for 50 years, or other flavors of condescension at the naive treehuggers who are going to ruin everything with their technophobia.