Five Things the "Nuke Bros" Don't Want You to Know About Small Modular Reactors

https://blog.ucs.org/edwin-lyman/five-things-the-nuclear-bros-dont-want-you-to-know-about-small-modular-reactors/

by cratermoon • 1 month ago

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blog.ucs.org

Let’s also not forget that Trump stacked the nuclear regulatory commission with his appointees. Now he gets to decide winners and losers by choosing to approve designs from friends but not other competitors. Can any approved design, even if it is actually ordered and deployed, be trusted by the public?

cratermoon2• 1 month ago

I'm imagining the nuclear reactor version of the reflecting pool.

giardini2• 1 month ago

Who cares? They'll be cheaper and quicker to get online than the big reactors. Who wants to wait 11 years for electricity?

wmf• 1 month ago

The article says they are not cheaper.

cratermoon2• 1 month ago

Nor quicker to bring online.

giardini2• 1 month ago

While they're not as economical long-term as a traditional reactor, they're cheaper and much faster to bring online. It takes decades to get a traditional reactor online.

Five Things the "Nuke Bros" Don't Want You to Know About Small Modular Reactors

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