If Navy can power submarine with nuclear (oops, nukelar) reactor, why can’t we have one running in the basement of the town hall and power the local community???
The off peak loads can be taken care of by recharging electric cars and toys plus charging up home backup battery banks. Also some are using lake accumulators, by pumping the water up during the low load and then using it at peaks to run turbines.
The peaks to be taken care of conventional power plants by firing them up as needed.
Time to get rid of stooopids in the government, replace layers lawyers with engineers and common sense folks.
Go Glen!!!! 9/12
You make two good points, one is that nuclear plants don’t have to be mega plants, they can be smaller for a more distributed network. Mega plants have their advantages, the economies of scale, but more smaller plants have an advantage in that a high-line down or a plant down isn’t the disaster it is when you have all your eggs in a very few baskets.
And that once we go to electric cars, that will even out some of our peak load issues, since people would be charging their cars during otherwise off-peak times.