“Cheaper and faster” are concerning adjectives to be using for nuclear reactors… while well-regulated nuclear power is better than a lot of alternatives, trying to drive more and more adoption by lowering the bar seems overly risky.
“Cheaper and faster” are relative. Building a new nuclear reactor in the US is close to impossible right now. Assuming you can get through the permitting process, construction will take over a decade and cost tens of billions of dollars. See the expansion of the Vogtle power plant in Georgia for example. The process does need to be cheaper and faster if nuclear power has any future here.
Anything relying on stable conditions should be carefully implemented, if at all, in the current unstable climate which will only get more unpredictable.
“Cheaper and faster” are concerning adjectives to be using for nuclear reactors… while well-regulated nuclear power is better than a lot of alternatives, trying to drive more and more adoption by lowering the bar seems overly risky.
The point of smaller reactors is that they could be much safer and cheaper to deploy. They’re intended to be entirely self contained.
“Cheaper and faster” are relative. Building a new nuclear reactor in the US is close to impossible right now. Assuming you can get through the permitting process, construction will take over a decade and cost tens of billions of dollars. See the expansion of the Vogtle power plant in Georgia for example. The process does need to be cheaper and faster if nuclear power has any future here.
Anything relying on stable conditions should be carefully implemented, if at all, in the current unstable climate which will only get more unpredictable.