A new report has assessed the feasibility of deploying small modular nuclear reactors to meet increasing energy demands around the world. The findings don't look so good for this particular form of energy production.

[T]he report’s executive summary certainly gets to the heart of their findings.

“The rhetoric from small modular reactor (SMR) advocates is loud and persistent: This time will be different because the cost overruns and schedule delays that have plagued large reactor construction projects will not be repeated with the new designs,” says the report. “But the few SMRs that have been built (or have been started) paint a different picture – one that looks startlingly similar to the past. Significant construction delays are still the norm and costs have continued to climb.”

  • wewbull@feddit.ukEnglish
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    6 months ago

    Sorry, but we’ve seen what happens when you build nuclear reactors in a low regulation environment under cost pressure.

    It’s not pretty.

    • JasonDJEnglish
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      6 months ago

      I didn’t say get rid of the regulations, I said review them. They need to be rebuilt from scratch based on modern technology and science, not of the FUD that anti-nuclear lobbyists pushed throughout the 80s and 90s.