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  1. 11-13-2020, 08:17 AM #21
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    BBC article.
    https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-54703204
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    People genuinely think these things just meltdown every 10-15 years.

    And make people grow third arms within 500km the rest of the time.

    You have a greater likelihood of being exposed to dangerous levels of radiation living near a hospital than a nuclear power plant.

    Or taking one transatlantic flight.
    Or eating bananas.
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    The article cites them taking a whole bunch of older reactors offline. Why is that?

    I believe I once read somewhere that overtime the radiation damages the concrete structure of the facility, but I could be mistaken. So do these power plants ever pay for themselves? It seems like with how few moving parts they have that they could essentially run forever as long as the pumping equipment was maintained.
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    Popular Mechanics is a good magazine.
    https://www.popularmechanics.com/sci...ular-reactors/
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    I am friends with a guy invested in SMR tech. I am still on the fence
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    Popular Mechanics is a good magazine.
    https://www.popularmechanics.com/sci...ular-reactors/
    Man, whoever is their webmaster / designer did a fucking terrible job with that site. Not very intuitive to read or navigate. Strange for a well known publication....
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    Ouch. 2billion pounds for 440MW.

    we can build successful 800-900 MW gas powered plants here in Calgary for 1.5billion CDN.

    it’s definitely not a cost savings venture ��
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    Britain has very high power costs anyway. And they basically rejected natural gas, even though they have massive reserves of it.

    Gas-fired generation is awesome here, and we should build a fuckton of it. But nukes are also awesome. Let's build this too.
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    Ouch. 2billion pounds for 440MW.

    we can build successful 800-900 MW gas powered plants here in Calgary for 1.5billion CDN.

    it’s definitely not a cost savings venture ��
    The quotes in the UK included VASTLY different regulatory requirements - I suspect that the costs would be a LOT lower in AB - but probably not as low as a gas gen plant though.
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    The quotes in the UK included VASTLY different regulatory requirements - I suspect that the costs would be a LOT lower in AB - but probably not as low as a gas gen plant though.
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    Gas-fired generation is awesome here, and we should build a fuckton of it.
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