First planned small nuclear reactor plant in the US has been canceled - eviltoast
NuScale and its primary partner give up on its first installation.

NuScale and its primary partner give up on its first installation.

  • MrMakabar@slrpnk.net
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    1 year ago

    To put down the bad site of things:

    • cost nuclear is significantly more expensive then renewables. For the US and this project is was 30 times more per MW.
    • it takes about a decade to built a single plant, with cost overruns being common
    • single plants are so expensive that they can only be built with government support
    • total certralization of production, so basicly only big companies and governments
    • nuclear is baseload althou the production can be varied it is hard to turn off a plant quickly and turn it back on again
    • very real dangour of terrorist attacks
    • huge failure points in the grid, if you have a problem. Since they produce as much as they do, it causes huge problems, if they do not work properly for any sort of reason and there are a lot of them.

    Important to mention the downsides as well, so I thought I help out a bit.