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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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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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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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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Read moreCredit to Author: Sonal Patel| Date: Wed, 24 Jan 2024 14:58:06 +0000
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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Read moreCredit 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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Read moreCredit to Author: Michael Barnard| Date: Tue, 28 Mar 2023 19:35:27 +0000
Wrights 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.
Credit to Author: Michael Barnard| Date: Thu, 23 Mar 2023 18:15:20 +0000
Already 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.
Credit to Author: Michael Barnard| Date: Wed, 18 Jan 2023 19:30:32 +0000
Will 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.
Credit to Author: Michael Barnard| Date: Wed, 20 Jul 2022 17:05:12 +0000
Shah’s perspective is that we don’t have the ability to go into Sim City and design whatever we want. We have to work with pre-existing facilities.