Page 7 - Small Modular Nuclear News Today

It’s clean, efficient, and abundant, but is nuclear a good way to power data centers?

It’s clean, efficient, and abundant, but is nuclear a good way to power data centers?

Terrestrial Energy’s molten-salt reactor clears prelicensing review, Globe and Mail, MATTHEW MCCLEARN, APRIL 19, 2023 Nuclear-reactor developer Terrestrial Energy has completed a prelicensing review by the Canadian Nuclear Safety Commission, an early milestone along the road to commercialization of its next-generation product. The Integral Molten Salt Reactor (IMSR) is the first of its kind to…

First -let's see what the Assembly of First Nations of Canada (AFN) say about Small Modular Nuclear Reactors  The AFN resolution from 2018 against SMRs, available HERE says: THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED that the Chiefs-in-Assembly:1. Demand that free, prior and informed consent is required to ensure that no storage or disposal of hazardousmaterials shall take place…

Already 2.4 times as expensive as very, very expensive Hinkley. First of a kind, so very likely to double or more in price. Very unlikely to be built before 2040 due to long-tailed risks. Small modular reactors won’t achieve economies of manufacturing scale, won’t be faster to construct, forego efficiency of vertical scaling, won’t be…

The unpredictable costs of nuclear have stung another US pioneer. NuScale, which received regulatory approval in January for its Voygr design, is the first SMR to get final approval from the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) for deployment in the US. At the same time as it announced approval, however, NuScale that the cost of its systems has expanded,…

Plea made by Highlands Against Nuclear Power and Nuclear Free Local Authorities

Anti-nuclear campaigners are gathering forces against what they say is a “repeated narrative” that nuclear energy is viable and helps create more jobs.

So Who Is Advocating For SMRs & Why?    So why are they doing this? Because it allows them to defer governmental climate action while giving the appearance of climate action. They can pander to their least intelligent and wise supporters by asserting that renewables aren’t fit for purpose, while also not doing anything about the real…

History shows a legacy of failures in the pursuit of the sodium reactor fantasy. As Admiral Rickover said almost 70 years ago, sodium reactors are “expensive to build, complex to operate, susceptible to prolonged shutdown as a result of even minor malfunctions, and difficult and time-consuming to repair.” Mr. Gates, it’s time to face the music…