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> Make a nuclear power plant factory and you can get those numbers way down. That's exactly what modern nuclear proposals look like. You make a nuclear power p
by fennecfoxen 6y ago
> Make a nuclear power plant factory and you can get those numbers way down.
That's exactly what modern nuclear proposals look like. You make a nuclear power plant factory, mass-produce smallish mostly-sealed reactor units of a few hundred megawatts each, truck a few of the units to a power plant for installation, and truck them back to the factory occasionally for service.
Look at what the DoE has to say about things like "Advanced Small Modular Reactors". Or https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Small_modular_reactor https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Small_modular_reactor
- acidburnNSA 6y agoYou can also do large nuclear reactors in a factory if you use shipyard construction. In the 1970s Westinghouse and Newport News had a joint venture called Offshore Power Systems to do this. They employed 1000 people at their peak and did serious design and construction work of their nuclear plant manufacturing facility in Jacksonville Florida. In fact they actually got a manufacturing license to build eight gigawatt-class floating nuclear power plants in it from the NRC in 1982. https://www.sciencefriday.com/segments/floating-nuclear-power-plants/ https://www.sciencefriday.com/segments/floating-nuclear-powe... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0awiL0BeZ-k https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0awiL0BeZ-k https://whatisnuclear.com/blog/2020-01-26-offshore-power-systems.html https://whatisnuclear.com/blog/2020-01-26-offshore-power-sys...