Why Britain Is Struggling With Nuclear Power | The government wants more nuclear plants to help tackle climate change, but delays and soaring costs are complicating the effort.

silence7 ( @silence7@slrpnk.net ) · 9 months ago

Why Britain Is Struggling With Nuclear Power | The government wants more nuclear plants to help tackle climate change, but delays and soaring costs are complicating the effort.

OmnipotentEntity ( @OmnipotentEntity@beehaw.org ) · 9 months ago

Last I heard (seminar in Summer 2018) NuScale’s SMR was supposed to be able to do load following, but still needed some work analysis and design work to handle the effects of shadowing from control rods to prove they were safe for any power output history. I haven’t followed up since then, but I imagine that’s a bit of a complicated thing to simulate.