The website is called The Texas Tribune. They write articles about Texas. I really don’t know why you expected them to mention Canada.
Comment on Texas becomes leading test ground for small nuclear reactors
masterspace@lemmy.ca 17 hours ago
Lol, typical American centric article.
Just outside Toronto, they’re building four 300MW small modular reactors, at an existing nuclear plant, using proven designs from Hitachi, and the first one is targeted to come online by 2029 or 2030, eclipsing the Texas projects in scale, timeline, and practicality, but that literally doesn’t even get a passing mention.
Nelots@piefed.zip 8 hours ago
masterspace@lemmy.ca 7 hours ago
The posted headline is literally “Texas become leading ground for testing small modular reactors”.
That inherently implies that places that aren’t Texas, are not, bringing them into the discussion.
Nelots@piefed.zip 7 hours ago
Fair enough point. And while it’s not the article’s headline, that is the tab’s label when you open it.
SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.ca 5 hours ago
They are referring to the expert comments here about how SMRs can’t be used for grid electricity, radiation leaks, etc.
They would rather breathe in that clean coal.
Cocodapuf@lemmy.world 9 hours ago
300mw are indeed a much different scale from 10mw.
I wonder if your ire is misplaced… As these are sort of different things. The 10mw reactors have different use cases, they’re not really designed to be installed as part of a power plant, but more as a reserve power system for a hospital, individual on-site use.
Formfiller@lemmy.world 7 hours ago
I’m sure Texas will do it in the dumbest most unregulated way possible. It will be a good example of what not to do.
hector@lemmy.today 6 hours ago
Not winterize them, because the feds can’t tell us what to do, and then have it melt down in the next polar inversion, of which they got one this year again. It’s going to be a regular occurrence now with the global weirding.
Dave@lemmy.nz 16 hours ago
So how long until it’s small enough to power a Pip-boy?
seederbot@lemmy.permisuan.com 9 hours ago
Asking the real questions
SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.ca 5 hours ago
Yeah, these guys really have their heads up their asses on this.
humanspiral@lemmy.ca 7 hours ago
budgeted at 17.5c/watt (CAD), that too is a boondoggle before additional Ontario taxpayer corruption.
MedicPigBabySaver@lemmy.world 8 hours ago
They’re not in the same game.
socsa@piefed.social 1 hour ago
4 years to build a power plant is still fucking stupid when you could install 10x the solar and battery capacity in that time.