Developers of small modular reactors hope their time has come

Re:Developers of small modular reactors hope their time has ... by pydry on Thursday March 24, 2022 @07:50AM (#30788583)

I've never actually seen numbers which take into account pumped storage, grid interconnects, actual weather, low-hanging-fruit demand shaping and the anticorrelation of wind and solar but I wish somebody would produce some.

There's a lot of very shallow analysis out there though that cheerleads some approach with some very trivially refuted assumptions.

My sense is that the price of all of those things combined is currently about 90% of the cost of nuclear power official and about 60-75% of the cost of nuclear power that pays for its own disaster insurance.

While my own model is most assuredly flawed, I havent really seen a good alternative.

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Re:Developers of small modular reactors hope their time has ... by regularfry on Thursday March 24, 2022 @08:18AM (#30788777)

It's been a while since I read it to know if the specifics you're after are in there, but I wouldn't be surprised if you could get a directionally-correct reading from https://www.withouthotair.com/. Provisos obviously include changes in costs since it was published, but it would give you a starting point.

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