US Certified First Modular Nuclear Reactor Design

[Zincwarrior]

US regulators will certify first small nuclear reactor design

NuScale will get the final approval nearly six years after starting the process.

arstechnica.com

NUscale small reactor Certified. This is a key step in long term energy independence. The reactors are fully passive safety devices, and are manufactured like normal machinery at a central plant, then shipped to location.

 

[okfine]

US regulators will certify first small nuclear reactor design

NuScale will get the final approval nearly six years after starting the process.

arstechnica.com

NUscale small reactor Certified. This is a key step in long term energy independence. The reactors are fully passive safety devices, and are manufactured like normal machinery at a central plant, then shipped to location.

It's controversial on it's (NUscale) economic ability to reduce cost.

 

[Captain Caveman]

US regulators will certify first small nuclear reactor design

NuScale will get the final approval nearly six years after starting the process.

arstechnica.com

NUscale small reactor Certified. This is a key step in long term energy independence. The reactors are fully passive safety devices, and are manufactured like normal machinery at a central plant, then shipped to location.

As long as America gets away from renewables and onto nuclear, then America will become energy independent. Simply because, renewables are so hopeless, countries end up relying on neighbouring countries for gas and oil.

Eventually in the future, each house will have a baseball sized nuclear fusion cell in the fusebox supplying the house with electric.

 

[okfine]

As long as America gets away from renewables and onto nuclear, then America will become energy independent. Simply because, renewables are so hopeless, countries end up relying on neighbouring countries for gas and oil.

Eventually in the future, each house will have a baseball sized nuclear fusion cell in the fusebox supplying the house with electric.

NUscale is the topic. They can't come up with the figures for kWh per dollar. If, and when they do become functional.
There is a lot of info on this company and whether or not they can compete with lower cost renewables.

Report claims ‘serious problems’ with proposed NuScale SMR - Power Engineering

“Too late, too expensive, too risky and too uncertain” is how a new report by the Institute for Energy Economics and Financial Analysis (IEEFA) described NuScale’s proposed small modular reactor (SMR) project.

www.power-eng.com

 

[MarathonMike]

US regulators will certify first small nuclear reactor design

NuScale will get the final approval nearly six years after starting the process.

arstechnica.com

NUscale small reactor Certified. This is a key step in long term energy independence. The reactors are fully passive safety devices, and are manufactured like normal machinery at a central plant, then shipped to location.

We need sane leadership to get these small scale nuclear reactors in place around the country to augment already strained power grids.

 

[Captain Caveman]

NUscale is the topic. They can't come up with the figures for kWh per dollar. If, and when they do become functional.
There is a lot of info on this company and whether or not they can compete with lower cost renewables.

Report claims ‘serious problems’ with proposed NuScale SMR - Power Engineering

“Too late, too expensive, too risky and too uncertain” is how a new report by the Institute for Energy Economics and Financial Analysis (IEEFA) described NuScale’s proposed small modular reactor (SMR) project.

www.power-eng.com

Unfortunately, renewables are not low cost, they're the opposite, they drive the cost of electric up through the ceiling.

 

[okfine]

Unfortunately, renewables are not low cost, they're the opposite, they drive the cost of electric up through the ceiling.

What do you know about NUscale?
Obviously not much.

 

[MarathonMike]

The first Nuscale based reactor goes online in 2029 in Idaho, and they have also signed an agreement for a reactor plant in Romania. This technology makes a lot of sense and the small size of the reactors make them ideal to serve more remote areas.

Carbon Free Power Project | NuScale Power

The Carbon Free Power Project aims to develop the first power plant based on the NuScale Small Modular Reactor design.

www.nuscalepower.com

 

[krichton]

As long as America gets away from renewables and onto nuclear, then America will become energy independent. Simply because, renewables are so hopeless, countries end up relying on neighbouring countries for gas and oil.

Eventually in the future, each house will have a baseball sized nuclear fusion cell in the fusebox supplying the house with electric.

People who say this literally have no idea how many nuclear power plants would be needed to power a whole country, much less one the size of the United States, in order to abandon renewables, oil, gas, etc. France, which is not even the size of texas has a whopping 56 nuclear power plants and they still rely heavily on oil, gas and renewables.

 

[Captain Caveman]

People who say this literally have no idea how many nuclear power plants would be needed to power a whole country, much less one the size of the United States, in order to abandon renewables, oil, gas, etc. France, which is not even the size of texas has a whopping 56 nuclear power plants and they still rely heavily on oil, gas and renewables.

Six nuclear plants powers 20% of the UK. So 6/20x100= 30.

The US population is 4.82 times that of the UK. So 30 x 4.82 = 144.6 nuclear plants.

Trying to downscale nuclear plants to be more community specific is a way forward for large countries, not so important for the UK. It's trying to make them cost effective.

 

[krichton]

Six nuclear plants powers 20% of the UK. So 6/20x100= 30.

The US population is 4.82 times that of the UK. So 30 x 4.82 = 144.6 nuclear plants.

Trying to downscale nuclear plants to be more community specific is a way forward for large countries, not so important for the UK. It's trying to make them cost effective.

According to the most recent data, as of last month, the UK has 9 reactors, which supply 15% of their energy. I guess they would need to build an additional 63 reactors to reach their goal of 100%.

The US has 93 reactors/plants, which supply about 20% of our energy. We would need to build hundreds of reactors/plants in order to be 100% fully nuclear powered. I'm sorry, but 50 extra reactors isn't going to hack it. Additionally, I don't think you can comprehend what a monumentally difficult if not impossible task it would be to build hundreds of reactors. Even a few dozen like it would be for the UK would be in a similar situation. If it was so easy, every country would be doing it. People really need to stop talking about how easy it would be to go full nuclear.