Re:First new U.S. nuclear reactor since 2016 is now in opera...
by angiosperm on Wednesday December 27, 2023 @08:58PM
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Inventing imaginary problems does not contribute to the discussion. Please use facts.
Re:First new U.S. nuclear reactor since 2016 is now in opera...
by stephenr on Wednesday December 27, 2023 @09:19PM
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Just as well New York and Virginia have oodles of open ocean right at their doorstep to run multi-gigawatt wind farms I guess huh?
Re:First new U.S. nuclear reactor since 2016 is now in opera...
by fastball on Wednesday December 27, 2023 @11:13PM
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Wind isn't reliable.
Re:First new U.S. nuclear reactor since 2016 is now in opera...
by gustavus on Thursday December 28, 2023 @02:03AM
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Yeah and all those people on the other side of the Appalachians can just take a hike, why do they need power anyway. They brought the problem on their selves with their dirty coal mining habits time for them to pay the price.
Re:First new U.S. nuclear reactor since 2016 is now in opera...
by stephenr on Thursday December 28, 2023 @02:30AM
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The comment I replied to talked about getting power from Nevada to New York. I'm not American so I had to look at a map but it seems like the other side of the Appalachians from New York is... Ohio?
Is there something about Ohio that means they have no atmospheric wind nor natural sunlight?
Technically you need to factor in the fact that a nuclear plant can be built relatively near the places where its power will be consumed; some mass of solar power in Nevada is highly inefficient for powering New York or Virginia, even if you built HVDC lines to cut down on total line losses, so you'll need to pick land tracts reasonably near battery banks that would in turn be near cities.