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> Even small modular reactors fail to address this. I'd be willing to engage with SMRs on the merits of actually constructed systems, but if you open https://w
by pjc50 6mo ago
> Even small modular reactors fail to address this.
I'd be willing to engage with SMRs on the merits of actually constructed systems, but if you open https://world-nuclear.org/information-library/nuclear-power-reactors/small-modular-reactors/small-modular-reactor-smr-global-tracker https://world-nuclear.org/information-library/nuclear-power-... and restrict to "operational" all but two of the projects disappear.
- marcosdumay 6mo agoOne in China and one in Russia. I doubt they are talking about the same thing as the US companies. So it would be useless to extrapolate their economics.
- matthewdgreen 6mo agoNot only this, but the benefit of SMR is based on the possibility that they can be mass-produced at low cost. Until that happens, the benefit doesn’t exist. Solar and batteries and wind have already passed that threshold, but cheap mass-produced SMRs don’t exist yet, even if someone can point to a couple of expensive, bespoke SMRs.