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Re:Germany aims to get 100% of energy from renewable sources... by VaxWithSex on Monday February 28, 2022 @11:05AM (#30501391)
There is not a single one of these "small modular self contained" reactors commerically available or producing power for the grid.

These are called "blueprint reactors", because designing a nuclear reactor is easy, but building one is hard.

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Re:Germany aims to get 100% of energy from renewable sources... by raverbashing on Monday February 28, 2022 @11:43AM (#30501888)
> There is not a single one of these "small modular self contained" reactors commerically available

They exist in nuclear subs. There needs to be investment and research to make them commercially viable.

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Re:Germany aims to get 100% of energy from renewable sources... by layer8 on Monday February 28, 2022 @12:22PM (#30502351)
> There needs to be investment and research to make them commercially viable.

That means that it’s not a near-term solution, and also may turn out to not be viable at all.

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