We should be able to build these smaller safe reactors all around the country. Energy costs should decline over time, not rise.
$500 Billion for new AI Data Centers. Each new center should have it’s own modular reactor for power generation. Any excess power can be sold off to the local utility companies
Nuclear powered AI is how all the science fiction “End of Humanity” movies begin.
The NRC needs to enforce standardized design, which would reduce regulatory interference.
Also, the Feds (EPA and DOE) need to enact a regulation to limit the NIMBY lawsuits by making those groups, including the State and local agencies, post bonds to pay for delays for all of their BS lawsuits.
Aaahhh VC Summer. We started building a Volvo Assembly Plant near Charleston right when that was mouth-balled. I was told that if you wanted a great paying job and only had to work 2 hours a day, that’s where you go... The Quality Control was so extreme that you could only work 2 hours a day and stop so that a Quality Control guy could come by a check for the correct torque on the screws for a receptacle!!
We had several Electricians come work with us and they quit after a couple of days. They were appalled that we wanted them to actually work.
Kevin O’Leary was on Fox Business this morning, referring to MIcrosoft wanting to re-start 3 Mile Island Reactor, he told the host “You’ll be dead before that produces a single kilowatt of power”. I almost spit my coffee all over the floor!
Yes!
Zombies!! That’s what we need!!!
I have, at this late age, finally realized that access to energy is literally the controlling factor for human advancement.
Make energy plentiful and cheap, and humans will advance themselves with invention.
Wow. I guess I’m late to the party.
But what that always means is that governments and power providing industries should always aim for
MORE!
FASTER!
Vogtle design is a good one. Uhh, Summer not so much — operates a bit hot in the reactor. That leads to fuel problems.