How do you make safe, cheap nuclear reactors? Bury them a mile deep

Re:How do you make safe, cheap nuclear reactors? Bury them a... by marcosdumay on Tuesday August 27, 2024 @12:31PM (#41369419)

Because every industry has capital costs that you want to repay by using it as much as you can.

There is a very small amount of people working on low-capital industries (normally with higher operational costs), and they seem to be close to some gain here or there. But almost all of our knowledge is biased against turning things off.

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Re:How do you make safe, cheap nuclear reactors? Bury them a... by exe34 on Wednesday August 28, 2024 @11:41AM (#41380737)

> Because every industry has capital costs that you want to repay by using it as much as you can.

that's the bit I don't quite understand - yes, in a simple economic model where you want the numbers to go brrr, it makes sense, but is there a physical limit? could a country decide to own the big facility and use the excess electricity and sell the results to commercial ventures? the government can afford to have a piece of land taken that doesn't return a profit 100% of the time?

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