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I would much rather live near a nuclear power plant than a coal plant. I thoroughly support this, and hope they dismantle the big smoke-belching power plant in
by j9461701 7y ago
I would much rather live near a nuclear power plant than a coal plant. I thoroughly support this, and hope they dismantle the big smoke-belching power plant in my city in favor of clean nukes.
My only concern is the scalability of this technology - mciro plants sound fine for powering far off native settlements in the far north. But for providing grid power to the urbanized south of the country, wouldn't it make more sense to build bigger plants in fewer numbers? Chernobyl, for example, was 4 reactors all hooked up to the same electrical generation equipment to save money (high quality turbines are expensive).
- lemmox 7y agoSaskatchewan is a little more than 1M with cities smaller that 250k and New Brunswick is even smaller. Northern Ontario is also quite sparse. I think these are pretty good areas for the tech!
- tonyarkles 7y agoAnd we (SK) have massive high-quality Uranium deposits up north. I haven't gone too deep into the full plans here for these SMRs, but I have high hopes that other parts of the value chain will pop up here. We have a terrible habit in this province of growing/mining/drilling/whatever natural resources and then shipping them away unprocessed. Maybe we'll actually have a reason to start processing the Uranium here beyond just cleaning it up and getting it ready for export.