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Re:Nuclear power looks to regain its footing 10 years after ... by petre on Thursday March 11, 2021 @10:44AM (#26425203)
No, the solution is building multiple sub 100 MW (NuScale Power and others) and a few sub 500 MW SMRs for major cities (think post VVER 440 designs and Rolls Royce SMRs). Gen VI+ has passive safety requirements that would render a multi GW plant too big and too expensive. Think huge tanks of water, double containment, passive circulation, gravitational safety features and minimal disruption of fisheries and habitats. We need smaller and more modular NPPs with reactor vessels built on an assembly line and QCed, good safety guarantees, minimal staff, minimal operational costs and the ability to regulate the energy output in a wider range.
Re:Nuclear power looks to regain its footing 10 years after ... by baybal2 on Thursday March 11, 2021 @11:59AM (#26426214)
Building smaller reactors in not as solution to nuclear's cost for many reasons I wrote above.

Economics of small reactors is unsound. A cult like group pushing "small modular reactors" pushes a very likely deliberately miscalculated pricing estimates for them.

Re:Nuclear power looks to regain its footing 10 years after ... by 7952 on Thursday March 11, 2021 @12:06PM (#26426299)
Some of the designs seem to have high civil engineering costs. Digging big holes is not exactly a cheap thing to do.