Comment on Texas becomes leading test ground for small nuclear reactors
masterspace@lemmy.ca 1 month 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.
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.
So how long until it’s small enough to power a Pip-boy?
Asking the real questions
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.
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.
Small means they can be cooled down quickly and easily and usually the modern ones can do it passively without needing power for these very small ones.
4 years to build a power plant is still fucking stupid when you could install 10x the solar and battery capacity in that time.
Yeah, these guys really have their heads up their asses on this.
budgeted at 17.5c/watt (CAD), that too is a boondoggle before additional Ontario taxpayer corruption.
They’re not in the same game.
Nelots@piefed.zip 1 month ago
The website is called The Texas Tribune. They write articles about Texas. I really don’t know why you expected them to mention Canada.
masterspace@lemmy.ca 1 month 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.
Formfiller@lemmy.world 1 month ago
People in Texas aren’t known for their intellectual prowess.
Pieisawesome@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 month ago
It’s not really western…
Nelots@piefed.zip 1 month 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 1 month 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.