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The tallness is pretty important to the design and is pretty much antithetical to everything about home design.
by QuarterReptile 4y ago
The tallness is pretty important to the design and is pretty much antithetical to everything about home design.
- p1mrx 4y agoExcept for Lord Farquaad's castle.
- aperson_hello 4y agoThe 60MW seems a bit more antithetical to home design than the height! That's a not-small amount of power.
- plasticchris 4y agoNo but it sounds about right to supply a large parking garage (or three!) of charging EVs.
- oittaa 4y agoAverage American drives 14,263 miles per year. Tesla Model 3 consumes 0.27 kWh/mi. Average American driving a Tesla uses 3851.01 kWh / year. 60MW reactor produces 525,600,000 kWh / year. So a single NuScale reactor could power a garage with 136,483 electric cars.
- plasticchris 4y agoSure, but there are a couple of things to consider like peak consumption (everyone gets home from work and plugs in) or potentially much better utilization of electric vehicles from av adoption which might happen in the timeframes needed to get this tech out.
- aperson_hello 4y agoNuclear is pretty terrible for peak consumption though! It's perfect for base load.
- titzer 4y agoThose dogecoins aren't going to mine themselves.
- spacehunt 4y agoPerhaps for individual detached houses; 20m can easily fit inside apartment buildings...
- quantumwannabe 4y agoOr people will just have a nuclear tower on their lawn. If it can be buried (or partially buried), the tower need not be taller than the house. With some decorations similar to the ones on cell phone towers, it could even look reasonably attractive.
- titzer 4y agoBack of the envelope, 60MW is 30,000 homes. So a small city or very large town could install just a couple of these and be completely set.
- pnw 4y agoThe Nuscale design requires that the reactors are submerged in a below ground pool.