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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…