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Re:France to Build Six New Nuclear Reactors by yason on Friday February 11, 2022 @02:33AM (#30298210)
The cost of nuclear goes down if we build more of smaller standardized reactors rather than a huge, advanced plants every few decades where everything is new and untested each time, warranting long periods of validation and certification, and where the people building it have changed after each built power plant.
Re:France to Build Six New Nuclear Reactors by sirk390 on Friday February 11, 2022 @04:19AM (#30299170)
I doubt that there are numbers to prove that. SMR might just be a buzzword. From the page below there don't seem too many operating or under construction (5 operating, and 4 under construction). https://www.world-nuclear.org/information-library/nuclear-fu...
Re:France to Build Six New Nuclear Reactors by southerntofu on Friday February 11, 2022 @06:59AM (#30300366)
france has a bunch of standardized reactors: doesn't mean they don't suffer from engineering issue, that they don't leak hot water or radiation every now and then, or that we even know how to tear them apart when they reach end of life.

You should probably do some reading about the many scandals of the nuclear industry in France, from colonial exploitation for uranium to jailing/crippling/assassinating anti-nuclear protesters, with a bunch of nuclear scandals and accidents in between.

Re:France to Build Six New Nuclear Reactors by dgellow on Friday February 11, 2022 @05:18AM (#30299603)
From what I understand small modular reactors are not ready for production. Macro announced government money to help their research. The goal is to a have a prototype end of 2020s.