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Yes, anybody speaking as though this reactor already exists is wrong.

• littlestymaar 2y ago
  Well HPC exists, it's not operational yet (and won't be before several years) but it does exist. And equivalent storage doesn't exist not as a WIP, not even as a project.
  • pfdietz 2y ago
    Storage can go from planned to installed in a very short time, much shorter than a nuclear power plant, so that doesn't mean much. Storage prices are declining and installs are expanding with short time constants as well. The whole skeptical approach here smells strongly of ignoring rapid exponential change, which is pretty remarkable for a SV associated forum like HN.
    • littlestymaar 2y ago
      > Storage can go from planned to installed in a very short time, No it cannot, when you start building large hazardous (because of fire risk) facilities, then you face the same kind of red tape that you face with any big projects. Storage also requires adapting the electric grid to allow the energy to flow from and to the storage facilities. Believing storage is easy is just magical thinking. Nuclear isn't different, it's just big by default. And the French example in the 80s shows that building mass nuclear from scratch is in fact tractable in under two decades.