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Yes SMRs look very promising and I believe NuScale has one commercial plant in the early stages of production but it won't even be finished until the end of the
by mtooth 6y ago
Yes SMRs look very promising and I believe NuScale has one commercial plant in the early stages of production but it won't even be finished until the end of the decade[1].
The optimal mix using today's technology seems like it would be traditional fission for baseload combined with (solar/wind + battery) / hydro for variable / peak grid load.
[1] https://www.nuscalepower.com/projects/carbon-free-power-project https://www.nuscalepower.com/projects/carbon-free-power-proj...
- acidburnNSA 6y agoSMRs likely will suffer from diseconomies of scale. If economies of mass production make up for that, it will be awesome if not surprising. That's why I like combining economies of scale with economies of mass production with large reactors built in shipyards. Decarbonizing requires many new TW of capacity. Exajoules is the unit of import.