[HN Gopher] Nuclear power can help the democratic world achieve ...
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       Nuclear power can help the democratic world achieve energy
       independence
        
       Author : rntn
       Score  : 41 points
       Date   : 2022-06-29 12:30 UTC (10 hours ago)
        
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 (TXT) w3m dump (www.nature.com)
        
       | tluyben2 wrote:
       | Is there any progress on those Small Nuclear Reactors (SMR)? The
       | promise was 3-5 year builds for one unit and allowing builds in
       | parallel to deploy multiple units and hooking them up to form
       | practical larger plants. But it seems it cooled a bit now? It
       | would appear to be perfect for the EU situation and there would
       | be a lot of money and interest I guess. It is just hard to find
       | concrete and up to data information.
        
         | 2trill2spill wrote:
         | China has built a couple HTR SMR[1] and is also currently
         | building a PWR SMR[2]. And in the United States, Nuscale is
         | looking to have the UAMPS project starting to supply energy in
         | 2029[3].
         | 
         | [1]: https://www.world-nuclear-news.org/Articles/Demonstration-
         | HT...
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         | [2]: https://www.world-nuclear-news.org/Articles/Chinese-SMR-
         | cont...
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         | [3]: https://www.world-nuclear-news.org/Articles/Fieldwork-
         | comple...
        
       | moronicwebsite wrote:
        
       | ImHereToVote wrote:
       | "democratic world"
        
       | freemint wrote:
       | And what about the non-democratic world?
       | 
       | Do we want every country to run nuclear power plants?
       | 
       | Would you want foreign governments and countries running nuclear
       | plants in your country?
       | 
       | One way to help with that would be to have nuclear plants in
       | trusted countries, but will they stay trusted and will other
       | countries accept being dependent on a one sided dependence on
       | power?
       | 
       | Those questions are (in addition to cost concerns) why nuclear is
       | not a tech i see helping the world moving forward.
       | 
       | Solar/renewable could foster entirely energy independent
       | countries with a ton of storage or my preferred option, a global
       | grid having sun 24/7 and robust to seasons due to production on
       | both hemispheres. That way we are all interconnected and keep
       | trading even if long distance trade becomes verboten.
        
         | kleene_op wrote:
         | >Solar/renewable could foster entirely energy independent
         | countries with a ton of storage or my preferred option, a
         | global grid having sun 24/7 and robust to seasons due to
         | production on both hemispheres.
         | 
         | That's pretty cool but I'd rather we achieved energy
         | independence this millennia.
        
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