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I skipped it because you mentioned that part. I was merely trying to complete it. The United States went to the moon in 8 years. Where does “zero progress” co
by melling 4y ago
I skipped it because you mentioned that part. I was merely trying to complete it.
The United States went to the moon in 8 years.
Where does “zero progress” come from?
The same article lists projects.
We’ve all heard of TerraPower, for example?
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/TerraPower https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/TerraPower
- nl 4y agoI read the World Nuclear Association's "Small Reactor Dashboard"[1] (worst dashboard ever: it's 70+ page embedded PDF). There's only one 4th generation nuclear reactor actually producing power anywhere that I could find on the list, the HTR-PM in China which was connected to the grid in 2022. Terrapower is one of many companies that have some funding but nothing produced. To quote the Wikipedia link you posted: > [in 2022] DOE gave TerraPower cost-share funding through the Advanced Reactor Demonstration Program (ARDP) to test, license and build an advanced reactor within seven years. Let's see where they are in 7 years... [1] https://www.oecd-nea.org/jcms/pl_78743/the-nea-small-modular-reactor-dashboard https://www.oecd-nea.org/jcms/pl_78743/the-nea-small-modular... [2] https://www.powermag.com/china-starts-up-first-fourth-generation-nuclear-reactor/ https://www.powermag.com/china-starts-up-first-fourth-genera...
- m463 4y ago8 years is probably the maximum length of time a project can live, given the political cycle. I had a friend who worked in nuclear, and progress was dictated by changes in washington every 4 or sometimes 8 years.