CSIRO Study: Nuclear Energy Is Not The Savior Some People Say It Is

Credit to Author: Tina Casey| Date: Mon, 09 Dec 2024 14:27:27 +0000

New SMR technology or not, researchers have thrown cold water on the idea of launching the nuclear energy industry into Australia.

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U.S. Has Agreement to Help Build SMRs for Ukraine Power Generation

Credit to Author: Darrell Proctor| Date: Sat, 16 Nov 2024 16:49:44 +0000

Officials from the U.S. and Ukraine said the countries will partner on building small modular reactors (SMRs) to replace the latter’s coal-fired power generation, with the SMRs used to help […]

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Major Microreactor Developer Enters Bankruptcy Amid Nuclear Industry Surge

Credit to Author: Sonal Patel| Date: Tue, 29 Oct 2024 21:07:41 +0000

Ultra Safe Nuclear Corp. (USNC), a developer of much-watched microreactor technology and advanced nuclear fuel, has filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy. The move signals a critical restructuring phase through which […]

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Google Could Use Small Nuclear Reactors to Power Data Centers

Credit to Author: Darrell Proctor| Date: Tue, 24 Sep 2024 20:29:06 +0000

Google’s top executive confirmed the company is working on large-scale data centers that would use more than 1 GW of power. Sundar Pichai, CEO of Google and Alphabet, in a […]

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CSIRO — Science Fights Back in Small Nuclear vs. Renewables Row!

Credit to Author: David Waterworth| Date: Thu, 21 Mar 2024 16:22:38 +0000

In a rare move, CSIRO has defended itself against attacks by Australia’s conservative politicians and the Rupert Murdock media. The fossil fuel focused are reacting to the latest CSIRO GenCost report, which reaffirms yet again that renewables are the cheapest form of electricity generation. CSIRO is Australia’s premier science and … [continued]

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Prodigy and Westinghouse Targeting Launch of eVinci Floating Nuclear Plant in Canada by 2030

Credit to Author: Sonal Patel| Date: Wed, 24 Jan 2024 14:58:06 +0000

Conceptual layout of a marine (shoreline) installed Prodigy Microreactor Power Station TNPP that can integrate a single or multiple Westinghouse eVinci™ microreactors. The facility is non-self-propelled. Courtesy: Prodigy Clean Energy

Westinghouse has revealed it is designing a transportable nuclear power plant (TNPP) featuring an eVinci microreactor with Canadian firm Prodigy Clean Energy, aiming to deliver a first project in Canada […]

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Three More BWRX-300 SMRs Planned for Canada’s Darlington Site

Credit to Author: Darrell Proctor| Date: Fri, 07 Jul 2023 15:27:27 +0000

GE Hitachi Nuclear Energy (GEH) said it is working on deployment of three additional BWRX-300 small modular reactors (SMRs) at the Darlington New Nuclear Project site in Ontario, Canada. GEH […]

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Shoveling Money Into Small Modular Nuclear Reactors Won’t Make Their Electricity Cheap

Credit to Author: Michael Barnard| Date: Tue, 28 Mar 2023 19:35:27 +0000

DALL·E generated image of shoveling money into a nuclear reactor, digital artWrights Law isn’t going to save the deep inefficiencies of SMRs. As I pointed out two years ago, the world tried tiny commercial nuclear reactors in the 1960s and 1970s, they were too expensive.

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European Tiny Modular Reactor Deal Starts With Absurdly Expensive Electricity

Credit to Author: Michael Barnard| Date: Thu, 23 Mar 2023 18:15:20 +0000

DALL·E generated image of cradles in hospital maternity ward with tiny nuclear reactors in them, digital artAlready 2.4 times as expensive as very, very expensive Hinkley. First of a kind, so very likely to double or more in price. Very unlikely to be built before 2040 due to long-tailed risks.

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The Nuclear Fallacy: Why Small Modular Reactors Can’t Compete With Renewable Energy

Credit to Author: Michael Barnard| Date: Wed, 18 Jan 2023 19:30:32 +0000

nuclear energy SMR Ukraine green hydrogen NuscaleWill the small modular nuclear reactor community be able to find an optimized point on the physics vs modularity curve? I don’t think so, and discussed it with Bent Flyvbjerg, global megaproject expert.

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