NuScale and its primary partner give up on its first installation.

First planned small nuclear reactor plant in the US has been canceled::NuScale and its primary partner give up on its first installation.

  • Stoneykins [any]@mander.xyzEnglish
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    8 months ago

    I remember so many nuclear stans on lemmy a bit ago refusing to acknowledge that renewables are getting so good and cheap that they are more important to solving climate change than nuclear. I wonder how they feel seeing investors pull out in favor of renewables?

    • Tattorack@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      8 months ago

      Like crap? Renewables are good in places where they work. Nuclear works everywhere and is more reliable.

      Investors pulling out of a nuclear project like this just looks like a, really dumb kneejerk reaction. “Oh! New shiny thing!”

      • Reptorian@lemmy.zip
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        8 months ago

        This. Green energy works best when complimented with nuclear energy. Then, we can ween away from big oil.

        • IchNichtenLichten@lemmy.worldEnglish
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          8 months ago

          It’s the opposite. Nuclear outputs as close to 24/7 as possible, you can’t ramp it up and down to accommodate variable output from renewables for practical and economic reasons.

          • Pipoca@lemmy.worldEnglish
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            8 months ago

            The problem with solar is that the sun doesn’t shine overnight. The good thing with that is that we use much less power overnight than we do during the day.

            If you’re relying a lot on solar, you need to build a big-ass battery that you charge during the day and use at night.

            Alternatively, you build a nuclear or gas plant sized to overnight usage and run them 24/7. Then, you build way smaller batteries to handle dispatchability and smoothing demand over the course of a day. Nuclear is good for baseline power, and doesn’t come with the environmental costs of a gas plant. It has a niche.