Hopefully these will go somewhere. One of the benefits that doesn’t seem to be talked about as much is maintenance cycles can be phased such that as a group you get near continuous output. Large nuclear plants need down time to be scheduled appropriately with other sources to cover the maintenance periods.
So for £12bn, you get 6 of these producing the same amount of electricity as 1 giant nuke plant for £20bn.
Why would you build a giant plant?
Excellent news for the environment.
>Industry sources say they hope that these SMRs would be operational within a decade.
Sure sure….
A country having problems building nuclear opts to an experimental new design. No way such a project could end up late and massively over budget.
Getting some real (pre-war) Fallout 3 vibes here…
I hope it works well and they build more.
12bn for 6 reactors, development cost, housing, containment and connection is pretty good really. It will of course cost more than that, it always dose.
I am so old as to remember an epoch when the BBC had the means to do journalism instead of just forwarding press releases from various industrialists.
Heck, I’d happily pay a licence fee on computers and gadgets if it enabled a real public service of informatics.
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Hopefully these will go somewhere. One of the benefits that doesn’t seem to be talked about as much is maintenance cycles can be phased such that as a group you get near continuous output. Large nuclear plants need down time to be scheduled appropriately with other sources to cover the maintenance periods.
So for £12bn, you get 6 of these producing the same amount of electricity as 1 giant nuke plant for £20bn.
Why would you build a giant plant?
Excellent news for the environment.
>Industry sources say they hope that these SMRs would be operational within a decade.
Sure sure….
A country having problems building nuclear opts to an experimental new design. No way such a project could end up late and massively over budget.
Getting some real (pre-war) Fallout 3 vibes here…
I hope it works well and they build more.
12bn for 6 reactors, development cost, housing, containment and connection is pretty good really. It will of course cost more than that, it always dose.
I am so old as to remember an epoch when the BBC had the means to do journalism instead of just forwarding press releases from various industrialists.
Heck, I’d happily pay a licence fee on computers and gadgets if it enabled a real public service of informatics.