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Nuclear has had issues with scaling, but new small modular reactors (SMRs) could help.
by firesteelrain 2y ago
Nuclear has had issues with scaling, but new small modular reactors (SMRs) could help.
- pfdietz 2y agoSMRs are being touted because conventional large reactors are now painted into a corner. It's not that SMRs are good, it's that the larger ones are effectively dead in the west. SMRs still are in the running because their sales story has not yet been effectively debunked by experience.
- anovikov 2y agoSMRs are well, a story. They don't exist and never will. Nuclear scales well with size, naturally meaning it scales poorly down. A small reactor is bound to be extremely uneconomic to run. They are just a distraction, not going to happen.