Poll: Utilities eye mini nuclear reactors

[ATCclears]

If the Feds are going to mandate 50% of new vehicles be electric on 2030+ then the generation has to come from somewhere.

Utilities Eye Mini Nuclear Reactors as Climate Concerns Grow

Despite the enticement of carbon-free power, critics say small modular reactors have the same safety and cost challenges of big nukes.

www.wsj.com

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[Alexx1401]

That will get the snowflakes heads exploding.

 

[Bam]

A solution to a problem we never needed. We should have never stopped building new reactors.

Nuclear power is actually very safe. Burying nuclear waste deep in the earth is safe and effective. What happened at Fukushima was human error based on pure greed, and would not happen in the US. Chernobyl, was crappy soviet engineering that doesn't exist today and again, human error played a major factor. And if in the tiny chance something did go wrong, Three Mile Island, proved we are capable of preventing Fukushimas and Chernobyls from happening.

While I welcome this as our way to get back into nuclear, we always had a source of clean energy that can be produced 24 hours a day and not just when there is wind or the sun is out.

 

[JustSomeGuy]

That will get the snowflakes heads exploding.

Good!

 

[Bob D]

A solution to a problem we never needed. We should never have stopped building new reactors.

Nuclear power is actually very safe. Burying nuclear waste deep in the earth is safe and effective. What happened at Fukushima was human error based on pure greed, and would not happen in the US. Chernobyl, was crappy soviet engineering that doesn't' exist today and again, human error. And if in the tiny chance something did go wrong, Three Mile Island, proved we are capable of preventing Fukushimas and Chernobyls from happening.

While I welcome this as our way to get back into nuclear, we always had a source of clean energy that can be produced 24 hours a day and not just when there is wind or the sun is out.

100%. We stopped out of a fear of incredibly rare catastrophic events which are made even more rare by modern safety technology.

Nuclear should have been the way of the future. We maybe could have avoided huge parts of this whole mess.

 

[Hop Sing]

That will get the snowflakes heads exploding.

FWIW, the snowflakes I know are pro-nuclear, as they see it as less environmentally harmful than current options.

 

[Bob D]

FWIW, the snowflakes I know are pro-nuclear, as they see it as less environmentally harmful than current options.

All of the liberals under 50 whom I know would prefer nuclear power to the coal and NG we use now. Some of the older folks I know of either political persuasion still have cold war ingrained fears about it.

 

[Brisket]

If you live in Kitsap like I do, you have quite a few nearby. My answer really depends on who operates and maintains them.

 

[The Heretic]

It depends on the tech used in the reactor.

I want a home ZPM

 

[Alexx1401]

FWIW, the snowflakes I know are pro-nuclear, as they see it as less environmentally harmful than current options.

You must have a different breed of snowflakes up there. Every since Fonda did that movie to scare everyone here I have never seen any snowflakes that were not terrified of Nuc power.

 

[gryghin]

I spent my youth living within 290 feet of a pressurized water nuclear reactor. In fact it was my job to operate it and work on all the electronics used to monitor, maintain and protect the reactor plant.

Right now, there are 20 -30 year olds in an engineering department whose median age is most likely 25, in 68 submarines and 11 aircraft carriers that are standing watch right now in Naval Nuclear Reactor Plants.

It's safe... if the Navy can teach this redneck from Goose Creek, South Carolina not only how to operate safely but also to lead a division in the engineering department of a nuclear reactor plant, then we can assume this is a transferable skill and can be taught to anyone in the USA that has graduated high school. (and pass the minimum requirements to get into the Naval Nuclear Program and then successfully complete it, of course) so, basically anyone smart enough and motivated to try and better themselves.

 

[Provincial]

My take on US nuclear power is that when it first started out the companies that designed them were steering the market into "bespoke" plants. By bespoke, I mean that every plant was somewhat different, and that they adapted the design of the plant to the site chosen, rather than design a basic plant and adapt the site to accommodate it. This greatly increased the cost (and the profit) and steered that money into the designing company.

At the time, I believe that everyone involved thought that nuclear power plants would be a major export product for the US, and that it would help win the Cold War. The Russians tried to compete in this market, but their engineering was not as successful.

It is also my belief that much of the opposition to nuclear power in the US was stirred up by Russia and it's sympathizers. If you look at the overlap between the anti-nuclear and pro-socialist/communist activists, it is apparent. Russia tried to "kneecap" the US nuclear program for both military and economic reasons.

The French went a different way by standardizing designs and refining them for efficiency and safety. Their program has been very successful.

As gryghin said, the US Navy has also followed the French example, standardizing and perfecting designs. Their experience should be invaluable in expanding our commercial nuclear power system.

Unfortunately, the same groups that oppose nuclear power are now in control of our government. If we are to have adequate electrical power in the future, that will have to change, and soon!

 

[ma96782]

BUT, But, but........

I was assured by some Liberal Democrats that BIDEN would save the planet while making things nicer.

Aloha, Mark

 

[ma96782]

Do you/would you want to invest?

THE LESSONS OF A BOND FAILURE (Published 1983)

www.nytimes.com

Aloha, Mark

 

[ma96782]

And this too. Let's go for another RACE?

The U.S. Is Losing The Nuclear Race To Russia And China | OilPrice.com

While nuclear power plants in the U.S. are retiring as they face stiff cost competition from cheap and abundant natural gas, America has also been struggling to keep its leadership on the global nuclear power market

oilprice.com

Aloha, Mark

 

[billdeserthills]

Japan has plan to get rid of tainted Fukushima water: Just dump it into the ocean

New Fukushima plan: an undersea tunnel

Nuclear plant will build an undersea tunnel and pump it out

www.newser.com

 

[gryghin]

Japan has plan to get rid of tainted Fukushima water: Just dump it into the ocean

New Fukushima plan: an undersea tunnel

Nuclear plant will build an undersea tunnel and pump it out

www.newser.com

Hence the Japanese fascination with Kaiju.