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Subject: Re: power shortages
Date: Fri, 08 Mar 2024 10:40:26 +0000
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On Fri, 8 Mar 2024 10:22:29 +0100, Jeroen Belleman
<jeroen@nospam.please> 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
>> <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.

Already in development!

https://www.rolls-royce.com/innovation/small-modular-reactors.aspx#/