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I watched a video about the economics of nuclear reactors and the main focus was that the time it takes to break even is much longer for nuclear reactors if com

• Symmetry 5y ago
  The main issue is that the first thing you have to do is secure your financing then you're paying interest on your loans over the near decade it takes for the regulatory approval apparatus to do its thing. If this allows you to get approval for a one reactor site with the right to expand to 24 more reactors of a given design without re-approval it might be very significant.
  • ansible 5y ago
    The other issue is that each nuclear reactor site is effectively unique. So there's whole piles of paperwork that need to be checked and re-checked to ensure that all procedures and everything is correct and up-to-date. With small modular reactors and similar, all the critical bits are made on a production line, and completely standardized. This will drastically reduced the paperwork and training needed to operate it safely.
• pydry 5y ago
  In theory but they're still vaporware.
• economusty 5y ago
  That's the goal smaller safer and economies of scale, PowerPoint size reactor complexes are rarely built and are one off designs with high level similarities.
• baybal2 5y ago
  > Couldn't something like those microreactors solve that problem? No, they will actually make the problem worse. Maybe it was a somewhat valid idea 40 years ago, but bot today.