Developers of small modular reactors hope their time has come

Re:Developers of small modular reactors hope their time has ... by BoxOfRain on Thursday March 24, 2022 @07:31AM (#30788439)

Also as far away as you could get geographically, though I suppose this is far less of an issue that it would have been in the past. I wonder if nuclear-powered ships could be utilised to deliver the uranium, further cutting the climate impact?

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Re:Developers of small modular reactors hope their time has ... by pharke on Thursday March 24, 2022 @08:47AM (#30789005)

If Australia were to refine the uranium for export you wouldn't need anything special in the ways of shipping other than good containment and careful handling. If you replaced all power generation with nuclear that alone would drastically reduce the amount of shipping necessary for oil, gas and coal to a point where you would hardly need to be concerned about it. There's even a relevant xkcd https://xkcd.com/1162/

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