I’m Sorry But Small Nuclear Reactors Are Basically Over

1위@Idisposable-v8t4 days ago

Their business case is not that a small reactor is intrinsically cheaper per megawatt than a large reactor. It usually is not. The case is that standardization, factory production, repeat construction, shorter schedules, lower project-level capital requirements, and reduced financing exposure might eventually outweigh the loss of scale economies.번역 보기

2위@dwavenminer4 days ago

One other issue, which comes from the Nuclear engineer Tyler Folse: Just because you scale down the reactor by 90%, doesnt mean you can scale down the staff and security by 90%... Infact it works really well the other way around, double the size of the reactor and you barely need to increase staff or security levels...번역 보기

3위@Cromius7713 days ago

As a Canadian they provide massive value. We can't transit power to very remote towns in the far north and it's very expensive to fly or ship in fuel. Burying a small nuclear reactor is a game changer for their economies and for our national defense번역 보기