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Don't the modern Small Modular Reactors (SMR's) greatly reduce both the cost and time (more importantly the time) for a nuclear reactor to get up and running? O

Don't the modern Small Modular Reactors (SMR's) greatly reduce both the cost and time (more importantly the time) for a nuclear reactor to get up and running? Or have I been sold on a lie?

blitzar 4y ago
"SMR's will be viable technology within a year." quote someone 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024, 2025
- EricE 4y ago
  The fact that SMRs have made any progress at all *in spite of* the environment so strongly titled against them is, frankly, amazing. If half of the energy spend demonizing nuclear was spent on modernizing it, SMRs would be a long solved problem. It's the ultimate "stop hitting yourself" :p
  - blitzar 4y ago
    You could easily say the same about wind, solar, tidal, hydro, geothermal, 'clean coal' (what a joke), insulation, efficiency, large scale, local scale, interconnects etc. But no, everyone has their one true source of planet saving energy (that they have a financial interest in) and every cent that goes to any other is destroying humanity or treason that should be punished by death. The grid of the future will have a bit of everything, and between now and then it will have a range of temporary forms to ease the transition.
  - epistasis 4y ago
    Environmental groups have no power to stop SMR development. For that matter, unless environmental groups are putting saboteurs inside construction projects around the world from France to China to the US, then environmental groups can't really be blamed for the failures of the past 20 years, either. Personally, attempting to construct new nuclear, after the lessons of 1980s construction, is a big "stop hitting yourself" move as wel.
    - blitzar 4y ago
      It is the usual partisan 'environmental group / greens are to blame for x/y/z'. Their 1 seat in parliament has affected government policy and the party that has been in power, with a large absolute majority for decades was powerless to stand in their way.

Don't the modern Small Modular Reactors (SMR's) greatly reduce both the cost and time (more importantly the time) for a nuclear reactor to get up and running? Or have I been sold on a lie?

blitzar 4y ago

"SMR's will be viable technology within a year." quote someone 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024, 2025

EricE 4y ago
The fact that SMRs have made any progress at all *in spite of* the environment so strongly titled against them is, frankly, amazing. If half of the energy spend demonizing nuclear was spent on modernizing it, SMRs would be a long solved problem. It's the ultimate "stop hitting yourself" :p
- blitzar 4y ago
  You could easily say the same about wind, solar, tidal, hydro, geothermal, 'clean coal' (what a joke), insulation, efficiency, large scale, local scale, interconnects etc. But no, everyone has their one true source of planet saving energy (that they have a financial interest in) and every cent that goes to any other is destroying humanity or treason that should be punished by death. The grid of the future will have a bit of everything, and between now and then it will have a range of temporary forms to ease the transition.
- epistasis 4y ago
  Environmental groups have no power to stop SMR development. For that matter, unless environmental groups are putting saboteurs inside construction projects around the world from France to China to the US, then environmental groups can't really be blamed for the failures of the past 20 years, either. Personally, attempting to construct new nuclear, after the lessons of 1980s construction, is a big "stop hitting yourself" move as wel.
  - blitzar 4y ago
    It is the usual partisan 'environmental group / greens are to blame for x/y/z'. Their 1 seat in parliament has affected government policy and the party that has been in power, with a large absolute majority for decades was powerless to stand in their way.