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Re:Nuclear SMR welding breakthrough: A year's work now takes... by pas on Wednesday February 21, 2024 @05:09PM (#39460345)
SMRs don't mean they would be scattered around carelessly. They still need the whole steam boiler turbine toybox. And with security requirements they will most likely be put on a site like current NPPs.
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Re:Nuclear SMR welding breakthrough: A year's work now takes... by lazide on Wednesday February 21, 2024 @05:27PM (#39460504)
A big selling point in the SMR space is they can be placed almost anywhere. It’s literally on the ‘brochure’.
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Re:Nuclear SMR welding breakthrough: A year's work now takes... by pas on Wednesday February 21, 2024 @06:06PM (#39460895)
yes, and it might make sense, and we will see ... but.

the real economics low-hanging fruit is to build those regular NPPs in increments, basically cheaper AND faster (which also means even cheaper). get real economies of scale, apply all of the last century's industrialization benefits on nuclear energy. (because current cost overruns are insane and mostly because of too-slow AND super-duper-artisanal (which means even slower) plant construction.

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