Tennessee/TVA to be first to build modular nuclear power plants

[Orangeslice13]

 

[NorthDallas40]

 

[rekinhavoc]

Nice.

 

[RavinDave]

Awesome

 

[Thunder Good-Oil]

The Clinch River Breeder Reactor site is only taking about 60 years to be utilized for energy production. I hope that it stays on schedule.

 

[rekinhavoc]

Got a nice property in Hartsville. Buzzard roost.

 

[Velo Vol]

Politics?

If this was a nerd forum we could argue over whether this was the best kind of reactor.

 

[marcusluvsvols]

We need to be building lots of these. Some to replace existing coal facilities, and many more for electric vehicles to ever become the norm in driveways.

 

[Vol737]

Politics?

If this was a nerd forum we could argue over whether this was the best kind of reactor.

Be quiet, nerd.

 

[Vol737]

We need to be building lots of these. Some to replace existing coal facilities, and many more for electric vehicles to ever become the norm in driveways.

OR….develop a nuclear flux capacitor that powers a vehicle for 3,000 miles. Doctor Emmett Brown would require us to think big here!

 

[Orangeslice13]

We need to be building lots of these. Some to replace existing coal facilities, and many more for electric vehicles to ever become the norm in driveways.

If we started today it would take 30 years for the infrastructure to switch to 50% electric vehicles

 

[Orangeburst]

OR….develop a nuclear flux capacitor that powers a vehicle for 3,000 miles. Doctor Emmett Brown would require us to think big here!

by B2F 3, he had that thing humming on beer, the can, and food waste.

 

[Vol737]

by B2F 3, he had that thing humming on beer, the can, and food waste.

It CAN be done….

 

[Grand Vol]

Politics?

If this was a nerd forum we could argue over whether this was the best kind of reactor.

We are nerds...

It is the future of nuclear. Prove me wrong.

 

[Wireless1]

Politics?

If this was a nerd forum we could argue over whether this was the best kind of reactor.

If they can bring it on line in 7 years it will be the best kind

 

[Wireless1]

If we started today it would take 30 years for the infrastructure to switch to 50% electric vehicles

Actually electric cars could be a partial solution, by charging at home late at night, might permit a higher base load so that the nuke could be a higher percent of grid. Combine this with the car “providing” surge capacity during the day (use the battery to operate your home during the day)

 

[Orangeslice13]

Actually electric cars could be a partial solution, by charging at home late at night, might permit a higher base load so that the nuke could be a higher percent of grid. Combine this with the car “providing” surge capacity during the day (use the battery to operate your home during the day)

I would like to see a higher percentage of power generation happening at the point of use. Forget wind farms and solar farms. Let’s put solar panels or wind turbines on any homes that go to electric vehicles.

 

[UT_Dutchman]

GE has been working on SMR's for a while now and Holtec said it will have a SMR in use in Michigan by 2030.

 

[GroverCleveland]

This is great news.

 

[Orangeburst]

This is great news.

I know it has been in works for years, but surely just a coincidence after Trump rolled out his EOs..surely.

 

[Velo Vol]

Be quiet, nerd.

I'm a quasi-nerd. Not enough to know the ins and outs of nuclear reactors. But it seems developers are having problems constructing them at anything close to their initial cost estimate.

 

[Orangeslice13]

I'm a quasi-nerd. Not enough to know the ins and outs of nuclear reactors. But it seems developers are having problems constructing them at anything close to their initial cost estimate.

Don’t we put these things on boats and sail them around the world. It sounds like we should be able to build the t
Stationary as well.

 

[marcusluvsvols]

Minimum. If the feds paid for it and mandated it

 

[marcusluvsvols]

If we started today it would take 30 years for the infrastructure to switch to 50% electric vehicles

^^^

 

[twoffo]

An alternate vision from one of many startups in the space: