Artist rendering shows Westinghouse’s AP300 small modular nuclear power reactor Artist rendering shows Westinghouse’s AP300 small modular nuclear power reactorMake them small enough to power cars and trucks,and perhaps then, people would be ready to give up on fossil fuels.
You know that the Serria Club and Greenpeace will shut any idea of these down hard.
I thought nuclear was bad, bad.
Could power an underground town with one of those. Could come in handy if you needed to shelter in Mammoth Cave for five or ten years.
As a capitalist, I’m open to all energy alternatives not supported by government subsidies. Does the government have its fingers in this? What’s the cost relative to the competition; natural gas, coal, solar, wind, etc.?
15 years ago I saw a reactor being sold that was the size of a large frig. They can make them very small. It was at the convention center by Disney in CA.
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Could have been done half a century ago.
Let me know when I can get one at Lowe’s...
Unless it can be built and shipped to the site - it will be a colossal failure.
The biggest problem with Nuke plants is that there are no economies of scale in construction. No US builder has built more than 5. Huge learning curve on every site.
“a small modular reactor to generate virtually emissions-free electricity”
Emissions FREE???
It only emits the most deadly substance known to man, that won’t be safe for 100,000 years.
People are so stupid.
Late to the game and relying alot on mere scaled down versions of older nuclear power methods to try to gain speedier approvals and thwart much more holistic newer designs from getting investment and market shares. It is merely a scaled down light water reactor process, where fail safe safey relies on the combination of the cooling water not getting contaminated and if contaminated not leaking (Fukishima).
Much newer SMR (small nuclear reactor) designs do not use the light water method and do not have the issues that come with possible contaminated coolant water leaks.
Bait and switch.....
Support modular nukes as pretense for shutting down fossil fuel plants.
After fossil fuel plants are shut down, then prohibit the nukes and leave us with nothing.......Population Control tool # 19.
Misleading headline - only plans revealed, not the actual thing.
Never happen...
The communists who rule us will never allow it...
Our masters absolutely require that the serfs be starving, cold in the winter, unable to travel anywhere not in walking distance (except for the children to travel 2-hours a day in school buses), and need impossible levels of night vision when the sun sets...
Finally ....good news on the energy front.
I could see a series of these powering desalination and pumping stations to bring clean water to the Colorado river from the Pacific. In similar fashion, water from the Gulf of Mexico could be pumped to lakes and reservoirs in New Mexico, Colorado, and western parts of the plains.