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> Small reactors are probably less likely to be delivered on time Do you mean the small reactors are more likely to be on time? I ask because you follow up wit
by happymellon 1y ago
> Small reactors are probably less likely to be delivered on time
Do you mean the small reactors are more likely to be on time? I ask because you follow up with this and I'm not sure your position.
> Generally small projects work better than big ones
- graemep 1y agoYes, it was as stupid typo. They are more likely to be delivered on time and work as expected.
- Arnt 1y agoSomeone posted a paper to HN that investigated the reasons for overruns quite thoroughly, from when the first reactors were built. Fifty pages or so. As I recall, none of the major reasons were related to reactor size. There were issues such as having ignored the risk of an earthquake; when it became clear that earthquakes can damage reactors, the reactors that were being built needed late engineering changes that led to cost overruns. Things like that. But nothing related to reactor size. (Note that this was about cost overruns. Not about the costs that stayed at the projected level.)