Path: ...!news.nobody.at!weretis.net!feeder8.news.weretis.net!reader5.news.weretis.net!news.solani.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Jan Panteltje Newsgroups: sci.electronics.design Subject: Re: power shortages Date: Sat, 09 Mar 2024 05:54:39 GMT Message-ID: References: <4oqluipf8tsspfkm695dhtnde9q6pj4ui0@4ax.com> <9c9mui5gu262r5u82tmhbrpb09dgtlrchj@4ax.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; ISO-8859-15 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Injection-Date: Sat, 9 Mar 2024 05:54:40 -0000 (UTC) Injection-Info: solani.org; logging-data="1204496"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@news.solani.org" User-Agent: NewsFleX-1.5.7.5 (Linux-5.15.32-v7l+) Cancel-Lock: sha1:Z/LfvTSGJ3ldn4dywHUX0ivOJDA= X-Newsreader-location: NewsFleX-1.5.7.5 (c) 'LIGHTSPEED' off line news reader for the Linux platform NewsFleX homepage: http://www.panteltje.nl/panteltje/newsflex/ and ftp download ftp://sunsite.unc.edu/pub/linux/system/news/readers/ X-User-ID: eJwFwQkBwDAIA0BLvCmVA13wL2F36VC8E0hEbm50kJygJ8ywY1Xoks+fviOMoRxphlnCFzp1e1V97p1P7AdXDhVT Bytes: 3643 Lines: 52 On a sunny day (Fri, 8 Mar 2024 19:56:48 +0100) it happened "Carlos E.R." wrote in : >On 2024-03-08 16:01, John Larkin wrote: >> On Fri, 08 Mar 2024 10:40:26 +0000, Cursitor Doom >> wrote: >> >>> On Fri, 8 Mar 2024 10:22:29 +0100, Jeroen Belleman >>> wrote: >>> >>>> 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 >>>>> wrote in : >>>>> >>>>>> >>>>>> 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. >>> >>> Already in development! >>> >>> https://www.rolls-royce.com/innovation/small-modular-reactors.aspx#/ >> >> It's really not a technical problem. The public has an irrational fear >> of radiation. > >Gosh, it is a very rational fear. Yes and no, wildlife around Chernobyl is flourishing mainly because there are no people there to kill it, all evacuated. The body has a DNA correction mechanism. If you look at he amount of people killed by nuclear accidents (bombs apart) maybe a few hundred, to the thousands killed each year in coal mining, by air pollution, etc, nuclear is very safe. A nuclear power plant accident may cause some areas to be evacuated for while. But earth is big, times moves, radioactive elements decay. Hiroshima and Nagasaki: people are living there again these days after it got nuked: japantimes.co.jp/2023/01/14/special-supplements/hiroshimas-rebound-atomic-bomb-prosperous-regional-hub/