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2019-12-15 Science & Technology

The Next Nuclear Plants Will Be Small, Svelte, and Safer

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Posted by g(r)omgoru 2019-12-15 01:57|| || Front Page|| [10 views ] Top

#1 "acronym GRETA" -- LOL -- I'm sure we can come up with something.

So these small reactors will reduce carbon emissions. But how will they help dismantle the American economy and inflict suffering on the deplorables?

Posted by Matt 2019-12-15 09:40|| 2019-12-15 09:40|| Front Page Top

#2 Green Reactor Energy Transfer Alternative?

Posted by Matt 2019-12-15 10:01|| 2019-12-15 10:01|| Front Page Top

#3 ^And we have a winner.

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2019-12-15 10:16|| 2019-12-15 10:16|| Front Page Top

#4 So will the Nevada disposal site, in the middle of where 1000 nuke weapons were tested, be open for business?

Crickets chirping....

Okay... this is not real...

Posted by 3dc 2019-12-15 10:42|| 2019-12-15 10:42|| Front Page Top

#5 Good Riddance, Environmentalist Tantrum-throwing Arseholes

Posted by Lex 2019-12-15 10:48|| 2019-12-15 10:48|| Front Page Top

#6 Engineering the economy of scale concept in reverse when it produces a solution to work around risk factors that are geometric in progression. Brilliant !

Posted by NoMoreBS 2019-12-15 11:31|| 2019-12-15 11:31|| Front Page Top

#7 More a slogan... "Generating revolutionary electricity through activism!"

Posted by Large Munster1307 2019-12-15 12:47|| 2019-12-15 12:47|| Front Page Top

#8 The Brits have some pretty small reactors (Advanced Gas-cooled Reactor or 'AGR'), and produce about 550-mW each.

These NuScale units (60-mW output each) make the AGR's look gargantuan, even if you needed the nine units to equal the same power output.

The idea is that you wouldn't. These can be placed firly close to a population center, thereby reducing the 'infrastructure' costs and vastly increasing power delivery losses.

And NuScale isn't the only one developing these smaller power systems.

Posted by Mullah Richard 2019-12-15 13:47|| 2019-12-15 13:47|| Front Page Top

#9 'DECREASING' power delivery losses.

Posted by Mullah Richard 2019-12-15 13:48|| 2019-12-15 13:48|| Front Page Top

#10 "Nuclear energy gets a bad rap in some environmentalist circles"

This may be the understatement of the century.

Posted by Secret Master 2019-12-15 21:29|| 2019-12-15 21:29|| Front Page Top

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