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Re:US regulators will certify first small nuclear reactor de... by okr on Saturday July 30, 2022 @07:51PM (#32291564)
Never say never. And about solvable storage: right now it is not solved. So it makes sense to go nuclear (again).
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Re:US regulators will certify first small nuclear reactor de... by VintageCool on Saturday July 30, 2022 @11:38PM (#32292935)
There was scarcely any financial incentive to address the grid scale energy storage problem until like two or three years ago. There are a half dozen startups working on it now.

My vote is to rapidly install renewables while we have the natural gas backstop, and give the storage startups a few years to make it happen. Energy Dome, Hydrostor, and Form Energy all look promising.

And if new nuclear turns out to be less expensive than expected, great.

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Re:US regulators will certify first small nuclear reactor de... by pfdietz on Sunday July 31, 2022 @09:58AM (#32295510)
> There are a half dozen startups working on it now.

Many more than that.

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Re:US regulators will certify first small nuclear reactor de... by kelseyfrog on Saturday July 30, 2022 @08:03PM (#32291656)
What are even the yardsticks by which nuclear storage success is even measured? /gen
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