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NuScale’s small nuclear reactor is first to get US safety approval
- guerby 6y agoFrom the press release https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20200828005299/en/ https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20200828005299/en/ "NuScale spent over $500 million, with the backing of Fluor, and over 2 million labor hours to develop the information needed to prepare its DCA application" Not cheap :) On scaling down reactors to micro size (nuscale is kind of larger) and costs: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7gtog_gOaGQ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7gtog_gOaGQ $0.25/kWh until large series (17mn30s).
- njarboe 6y agoThis certification is great news. I wonder how much sooner one of these small reactor designs would have come to market if there was $50 million dollars of paperwork needed in instead of $1/2 billion.
- atrus 6y ago2 million pages of additional requested documentation? What would all of that possibly contain?
- daly 6y agoWho do I have to marry to get one of these planted nearby?
- jimmySixDOF 6y agoThe Skunk Works people have been on about a fusion substation you could 'fit on the back of a truck' for years now and they are still working on it you gotta love those kind of high risk high reward R&D budgets >Lockheed Martin says that the CFR design could eventually be small enough to fit inside a shipping container, but still be able to power a Nimitz class aircraft carrier or up to 80,000 homes [1] https://www.thedrive.com/the-war-zone/29074/skunk-works-exotic-fusion-reactor-program-moves-forward-with-larger-more-powerful-design https://www.thedrive.com/the-war-zone/29074/skunk-works-exot...