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I'm really curious if it's possible to quickly produce small, safe nuclear reactor in high quantity, it might be a good solution to quickly remove coal as an en
by jokoon 5y ago
I'm really curious if it's possible to quickly produce small, safe nuclear reactor in high quantity, it might be a good solution to quickly remove coal as an energy source.
I'm pretty sure it's far better to mine a lot of Uranium that to use coal.
- bdamm 5y agoNuScale Power is one of these companies.
- sofixa 5y agoI don't know how quick it would be, but multiple navies around the world construct nuclear powered ships and submarines ( US, UK, France, Russia), usually in the "years", not "tens of years" timeframe ( unless it's an entirely new design of ship). For instance, the French Barracuda class submarines have 150MW reactors, and while the first two boats took 10+ years to build, the next are expected within 7-9 years. And that's for the whole complex submarine, i highly doubt the reactor takes all that time, but i might be mistaken. And that's for a small 6 ship class, i imagine that doing "mass production" of said reactors could be more cost and time effective.
- 7thaccount 5y agoThey're all classified though I would guess.
- autokad 5y agomany coal plants are peaker plants (at least in US ~250:1000), and I don't think nuclear can replace those as they produce a continual supply of electricity. Unless these small nuclear reactors operate differently?