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This is the big difference between most of the large deployed reactors and the modern designs. Which leads me to an idea: a power plant divided into four parts
by sroussey 4y ago
This is the big difference between most of the large deployed reactors and the modern designs.
Which leads me to an idea: a power plant divided into four parts, where each part starts construction on 1/3 the eventual power using the newest designs every decade. They run for 30 years. Then deconstruct and rebuild the last one with the newest design.
This would incentivize a continuous market for new designs over the next century.
- jeffbee 4y ago"Deconstruct" is doing a lot of work here. Nobody knows how to take apart fission reactors promptly after they are shut down at the end of their economic life. All we know how to do is wait many years for activity levels to decline, then incrementally remove materials starting with the least contaminated, which itself takes decades. The materials can only be recycled into other nuclear facilities, which means that essentially none of this material has been recycled, because nobody is building.