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SMRs are interesting.
Frankly i just think we need to take SMR tech and scale it up to stationary plant size. I realize thats a big ask, but it's already a big enough ask to make SMRs a thing that exist and work. Plus a whole plant is more inline with existing regulations.
Also worst case scenario, it's just normal nuclear plants. Instead of a bunch of small ones. We have a bunch of big ones, but with standardized designs.
Big Bespoke Reactors? Isn’t that what we do now?
I thought the entire advantage was to be small and use multiple.
I think you'll notice i never said bespoke. Realistically there will be minor differences from plant to plant, but you just design it in such a way that it's modular and not super set in stone, which will help alleviate that problem.
"SMRs — which are smaller and less costly to build than traditional, large-scale reactors"
They somehow forgot to mention a few key things:
They don't actually exist yet.
They may be cheaper but they generate way less power. If you added up the cost of enough SMRs to equal one conventional nuclear plant they would be even more expensive than an already prohibitively expensive method of generating power.
What a dumb article.
One significant benefit of these would be the lack of transmission losses that plague massive plants which have to send electricity sometimes hundreds of miles. Having smaller units maintained by municipalities would be cheaper for cities far from major electrical plants.
I was curious, so I checked to see the current longest ultra-high voltage dc transmission line:
The Changji-Guquan ultra-high-voltage direct current (UHVDC) transmission line in China is the world’s first transmission line operating at 1,100kV voltage.
Owned and operated by state-owned State Grid Corporation of China, the 1,100kV DC transmission line also covers the world’s longest transmission distance and has the biggest transmission capacity globally.
The transmission line traverses for a total distance of 3,324km (2065 miles) and is capable of transmitting up to 12GW of electricity.
As a general rule of thumb, HVAC lines will be somewhere around 5-6% line loss per 1000kms, and HVDC somewhere around 3%/1000kms
They exist, what do you mean? We’ve been powering a fleet of submarines with them since the 1950s.
Yeah, it’s going to cost a lot upfront to get them commercially viable, but for the few places where renewables need assistance, I don’t see why this can’t make sense.
Hey if you spiritual but not religious types could not fuck this up like the boomers did we would all appreciate it. I get it, you got pyramid power and The Secret. I don't care. That is your concern. Once you start shilling for OPEC it becomes our concern.