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You keep mentioning Wright's law, but SMRs are not about that. Changing the location of the manufacturing from on site to inside a factory will not have an impa
by credit_guy 3y ago
You keep mentioning Wright's law, but SMRs are not about that. Changing the location of the manufacturing from on site to inside a factory will not have an impact of 10-20% on the cost, but rather a reduction by a factor of 10 or 20. Wright's law is about subsequent reductions.
- _aavaa_ 3y agoLet me even grant you that it works that way in theory. By what factor has this project gone over budget, 10x? What’s the next project we can look at to see how it fares? My other points still stand, especially the one about competition.
- credit_guy 3y agoI don't know the factor, I think it was about 3x. But, NuScale has no experience building anything. It's just a startup. It's a miracle they got their reactor design approved. BWXT however is the company that builds the Navy's naval nuclear reactors. They are cooperating with GE and Hitachi [1] to build a 300 MWe SMR. All 3 of these companies have plenty of experience delivering on numerous types of projects, including nuclear ones. I do think they have a chance. [1] https://www.bwxt.com/news/2023/03/21/BWXT-Awarded-Engineering-Contract-from-GE-Hitachi-for-BWRX-300-Small-Modular-Reactor https://www.bwxt.com/news/2023/03/21/BWXT-Awarded-Engineerin...