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From: "Carlos E.R." <robin_listas@es.invalid>
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Subject: Re: power shortages
Date: Fri, 8 Mar 2024 19:56:48 +0100
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On 2024-03-08 16:01, John Larkin wrote:
> On Fri, 08 Mar 2024 10:40:26 +0000, Cursitor Doom <cd@notformail.com>
> wrote:
> 
>> 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#/
> 
> It's really not a technical problem. The public has an irrational fear
> of radiation.

Gosh, it is a very rational fear.


> 
> Nukes work fine in France. Actually, they work fine most everywhere
> else.
> 
> SMRs sound cool, but need to be hardened against greenie saboteurs.
> 
> They should be supported by a good fuel recycling/disposal
> infrastructure, which, again, is not really a technical problem.
> 

-- 
Cheers, Carlos.