Bags of debris from Fukushima disaster swept away in typhoon

Re:Bags of debris from Fukushima disaster swept away in typhoon by rubber_duck on Monday October 14, 2019 @08:08AM (#21247370)

I don't understand why more effort isn't put in to micro nuclear reactors - if you can get nuclear to that scale it has potential to locate close to consumers and avoiding transmission losses and disaster scenarios are much more local

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Re:Bags of debris from Fukushima disaster swept away in typhoon by koolba on Monday October 14, 2019 @08:14AM (#21247416)

> ... and disaster scenarios are much more local

That would be considered a bug, not a feature. I can’t imagine a more NIMBY proposal than building a nuclear reactor.

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Re:Bags of debris from Fukushima disaster swept away in typhoon by cgriswald on Monday October 14, 2019 @10:13AM (#21248467)

I think it’s a feature. It would mean those areas that want nuclear can have it without necessarily impacting their neighbors. They’re also more likely to make sure it is properly maintained.

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Re:Bags of debris from Fukushima disaster swept away in typhoon by 7952 on Monday October 14, 2019 @03:50PM (#21252081)

Distributed generation has its place, but generally capacity is more useful when it is fed into a HV national grid.

Also, I think the benefit of small reactors is ease of manufacture. You could probably just put several on a single site next to a HV substation. You get economy of scale that way.

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Re:Bags of debris from Fukushima disaster swept away in typhoon by icebraining on Tuesday October 15, 2019 @04:19AM (#21256519)

There are fixed costs per plant, like the very qualified people to run them. Increasing the number of plants also increases the cost per kWh.

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