Comment on Why data centers want to have their own nuclear reactors
treadful@lemmy.zip 6 months agoThis isn’t a moonshot at all. Checkout these eVinci microcreactors by Westinghouse. They’re currently being deployed in industrial settings around the country. They’re modular too so you just add more to scale. Pretty wild.
They’re currently being deployed in industrial settings around the US.
I searched and I can’t find any cases of such a reactor being deployed anywhere in the US.
“Microreactors for civilian use are currently in the earliest stages of development, with individual designs ranging in various stages of maturity.”
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_microreactor
The reactor you’re referring to doesn’t even had a Wikipedia page.
Weird.
I first learned about it with this project in Butte, Montana, which is in development. They also have a page describing a deployment in Saskatchewan. I don’t know if this was completed yet but it’s been in progress for years. There’s also a lot of other planned deployments I’m finding.
I thought I saw some active deployment on the east coast last time I looked into this but haven’t been able to immediately find an example. Either way, it’s at least in progress, has regulatory backing, and is not just imaginary.
I’d say it’s imaginary if they don’t exist. Your claim that, “They’re currently being deployed in industrial settings around the US.” isn’t really accurate, is it?
I’d say it’s imaginary if they don’t exist. Your claim that, “They’re currently being deployed in industrial settings around the US.” isn’t really accurate, is it?
I’d consider signed agreements as part of the “being deployed” process but yeah, I haven’t been able to find evidence of any currently active deployments. I wouldn’t call it a “moonshot” though when there’s so many in the works is all.
Not really sure how NuScale is relevant as that’s (or at least the project in the article is) utility-level power and not really the same thing.
Hey, is Signal down? Ah, reactor exploded, destroying the datacenter along with the staff on prem
Jk, cool stuff
abhibeckert@lemmy.world 6 months ago
Utah made a big splash about that as part of a climate change based election campaign.
They got real quite about a year later… and the website for the project is now a domain-for-sale page. The stated reason was what I said, it’s just too expensive.