February 8, 2024, https://beyondnuclear.org/first-smr-domino-falls-potentially-to-start-cascade/ Same financial risks viewed as generic to entire reactor type The nuclear industry is rattled by an Opinion piece appearing in the January 31, 2024 edition of the energy trade journal Utility Dive. The article, astutely entitled “The collapse of NuScale’s project should spell the end for small modular nuclear reactors,” is an…
https://www.eureporter.co/energy/nuclear-energy/2024/02/05/small-modular-reactors-do-not-solve-the-many-problems-of-nuclear-ngos-say/ As the European Commission prepares to launch its industry alliance for Small Modular Reactors (SMRs) on 6 February, civil society organisations stress the high costs and slow progress, making this technology a risky distraction for the climate. The European Union (EU) should concentrate its efforts on climate solutions that are already working to reduce…
Originally published here. The Administration’s stated goal for the energy transition is an energy system with “Net Zero” CO2 emissions after conversion of all energy end uses to all-electric systems. I often find, when trying to visualize a situation such as this, that it is helpful to visualize the end point of the transition and then analyze what had to be done to reach
COMMENT. This is a very interesting article. For one thing, it shows that these "advanced" nuclear reactors require plutonium to get the fission process happening. It also claims that these advanced nuclear reactors can solve the problem of plutonium wastes. That is not true. The wastes resulting from this process are smaller in volume, but…