Small modular reactors sound great and many of us really want them to be part of the energy solution. But if wishes were horses … (HT to good old Slashdot)
https://cosmosmagazine.com/science/engineering/small-reactors-dont-add-up/
https://old.reddit.com/r/energy/comments/1cqanvu/report_small_reactors_dont_add_up_as_a_viable/
by GraniteGeekNH
6 comments
R/noshitsherlock
Wow that’s crazy should be just use the falling off a fucking cliff so cheap it’s causing geopolitical tensions solar panels and batteries? Cuz that’s the screamingly obvious way forward.
Small modular reactors never sounded great tbh.
SMR development always was con artistry, funded by money from big oil and big coal to distract us from taking effective climate action.
The cool thing about renewables is, all of our energy needs can be met. It is only a matter of adding more.
Fossil fuels are on their way out and nuclear, as we all know, is so bad.
It makes sense to continue research into these to see if the various challenges can be overcome.
My problem with those promoting SMR’s is that such promotion is usually actually FUD in service of delaying renewables that work today in order to continue with fossil fuels.
We already know that SMR’s would likely be one of the most expensive routes to go with quite a long development time yet to go. So no scale yet, no cost savings yet. Still worth development dollars, but not at the expense of continuing to scale up renewables and stationary storage.
Is this another thing like where Ford says it in is losing 100k per EV. Fossil fuels are a hell of a drug…