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> let's be honest if there was a good alternative we would already be using it No one's using the SMR's that are proposed here either. They're hoping to get th

• CodeGlitch 6y ago
  SMRs are used in Nuclear Subs are they not? What we are talking about here is using them for civilian power. The unproven bit is the use of factories to make Lego-like peices for the construction.
• Ericson2314 6y ago
  No one should be inherently excited about SMRs for the technology alone. The excitement is it's a way to hack around political failure. - Renewable are great, but our current political economy just likes them because they don't require coordination and are marginally cheap. But when trying to do a completely renewable economy, those benefits dissipate when we need electricity storage or arbitrage/rationing on a huge scale, and that requires good good old coordination and politics again. - Regular nuclear power plants are great but the anglo-sphere can't do them for the same reasons they can't do subways. - Tiny nuclear power plants aren't intrinsically better at all, but perhaps can both have reneweable's ability to accommodate our shitty political economy, and maintain that ability all the way to 100% no fossil fuels for electricity. There's nothing great here, just a last ditch to throw technological band-aids on social issues.
  • jacobush 6y ago
    We are humans. You gotta work from that premise.