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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…