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From: Jan Panteltje <alien@comet.invalid>
Newsgroups: sci.electronics.design
Subject: Re: power shortages
Date: Fri, 08 Mar 2024 13:15:34 GMT
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On a sunny day (Fri, 8 Mar 2024 10:22:29 +0100) it happened Jeroen Belleman
<jeroen@nospam.please> wrote in <usela5$1jtre$1@dont-email.me>:

>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.

Yes, Russia has a ship with a nuclear power plant that powers some city somewhere,
no risk of flooding then :-)
 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russian_floating_nuclear_power_station 
OTOH ever more power is needed, so a big nuclear power plant makes sense.