US regulators will certify first small nuclear reactor design

Re:US regulators will certify first small nuclear reactor de... by marcosdumay on Saturday July 30, 2022 @11:24PM (#32292859)

Wait, am I reading it correctly that your reference is saying that the cost of fuel and operation of a nuclear reactor alone are already around the same value as the total costs for PV solar?

I didn't expect that.

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Re:US regulators will certify first small nuclear reactor de... by adrianN on Sunday July 31, 2022 @02:43AM (#32293746)

Just the turbine part of any power plant that converts heat to electricity is expensive enough that it has problems competing with PV in sunny locations (if you only include a little bit of storage in your calculations)

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Re:US regulators will certify first small nuclear reactor de... by marcosdumay on Sunday July 31, 2022 @11:29AM (#32296206)

What I got is that if you had a perfectly fine already working nuclear plant, completely paid off, it's about as profitable to abandon it and build a solar plant as it is to run it.

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Re:US regulators will certify first small nuclear reactor de... by dv_dt on Sunday July 31, 2022 @12:18AM (#32293135)

It's the same as the most expensive residential rooftop solar. Nuclear is about 8-10x the total cost vs utility scale solar projects.

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