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We've made great leaps in safety measures since then. I'm not convinced we've made much in the way of progress in terms of miniaturization, simplicity or cost
by Clewza313 5y ago
We've made great leaps in safety measures since then. I'm not convinced we've made much in the way of progress in terms of miniaturization, simplicity or cost of operation though, as you can see from the ludicrous cost overruns seen for basically all recent reactors.
- Manuel_D 5y agoMiniaturization is not desirable for nuclear power because of regulation. Each nuclear power plant is required to pay 375 million dollars in insurance, regardless of size. So this incentivizes building plants as large as possible. Even without regulation, things like surface area to volume ratio still make larger reactors more efficient.