Posted on 07/31/2024 10:59:59 AM PDT by Duke C.
Rolls-Royce has cleared a key hurdle in the race to build Britain’s first mini-nuclear power plant, as competition across Europe ramps up.
On Tuesday, the FTSE 100 engineering giant became the first developer to advance a small modular reactor (SMR) design to the final stage of examination by UK regulators.
Helena Perry, director of safety and regulatory affairs at Rolls-Royce SMR, said the latest approval was “the most important milestone to date in advancing deployment of Rolls-Royce SMRs in the UK”.
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A nuclear reactor + British engineering...what could possibly go wrong?
Small?
“SMRs would each generate 470 megawatts of electricity and cost between £2bn and £3bn initially.”
Now I just need a DeLorean 🚗 to go back and avoid a few mistakes!
Don’t tell me you’re one step closer. Tell me how many steps are left until the technology is commercially available.
I’m heading for Hawaii, and I’m one step closer as of this afternoon.
What happens if the car crashes, will it leak radiation?
It will be ready to come online as soon as they can figure out a way to make it drip oil on your driveway.
If true, then these things need to be secured well.
I like the idea of the SMR and think every community of 50,000 or more should have sites prepared and be connection ready. And think Homeland Security should have several on hand for natural and unnatural disasters.
Please let it NOT be developed by Lucas...!
“Small” in relation to the huge light-water uranium fueled behemoths designed over a half-century ago, and are now being decommissioned because of residual radiation problems. Those old reactors were highly complex, and subject to design defects that did not take into account events that had not been previously encountered, as happened in the Fukushima reactor destruction, and the ensuing problems.
The virtue of the Small Modular Nuclear Reactor is that it may be expanded incrementally, as the demand for more power grows, without extensive rebuilding of the site of the reactor. As the application of this power source is expanded, the cost per unit will decrease proportionately.
““Small” in relation to the huge light-water uranium fueled behemoths designed over a half-century ago,”
1/3 the size. Anything that costs billions is not small.
I guess they’re getting tired of that wind and solar crap
Rolls-Royce is more than an auto maker.
All these steps are government approvals. The technology has been there since the Polaris sub.
Green rules government approvals and Green doesn’t like natural gas or nuclear.
Nuscale (SMR) has full approvals but lacks funding.
Soon energy economics will force these technologies to be accepted.
If the world ends Hawaii is the last place in the world that you want to be. Over 85% of the food is imported and by the time local agriculture catches up the Cannibal Olympics would already be over. They hate whites there so they would be the first on the menu.
Beat me to it. (Ex MG and Triumph owner)
““SMRs would each generate 470 megawatts of electricity and cost between £2bn and £3bn initially.””
Yes. I don’t think this technology is focused on automobiles just yet. :-)
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