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From: Bill Sloman <bill.sloman@ieee.org>
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Subject: Re: power shortages
Date: Fri, 8 Mar 2024 22:04:58 +1100
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On 8/03/2024 9:40 pm, Cursitor Doom 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#/

Not exactly.

"By design, our SMR is focused on attracting all forms of private 
capital to support the build out of global SMR demand. With a proven 
factory built commoditised approach, our SMR will offer investors and 
lenders a degree of confidence that will enable future customers to 
access a range of capital options to finance their SMR purchase."

They've got as far as having a proposition that they hope will attract 
private capital. There's no suggestion that they have attracted any yet,
let along enough to cover the cost of building a whole production line.

It's a pipe-dream.

-- 
Bill Sloman, Sydney