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From: Jeroen Belleman <jeroen@nospam.please>
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Subject: Re: power shortages
Date: Fri, 8 Mar 2024 10:22:29 +0100
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On 3/8/24 07:40, Jan Panteltje wrote:
> On a sunny day (Thu, 07 Mar 2024 07:13:56 -0800) it happened John Larkin
> <jl@997PotHill.com> wrote in <h8mjui5kf50de3tkplpf1e12k12r8dgl58@4ax.com>:
> 
>>
>> https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/companies/amid-explosive-demand-america-is-running-out-of-power/ar-BB1jtM69
>>
>> Increasing demand and declining reliable supply could put people in
>> the dark.
> 
> Yesterday I was reading Netherlands gov has decided to build 4 new nuclear power plants.
> They still have to find locations for 3, what if next doors?? ??

These are planned to be the --now old-fashioned-- Westinghouse
design? Big installations that need ten years to build?

I wonder if it wouldn't be better to start an industry of
small modular reactors. Tens of megawatts rather than hundreds,
Something that could fit on a barge, or a train, transported
where it's needed, and up and running in months rather than
years.

Jeroen Belleman