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@HaraldKi habe ic das richtig verstanden? #Nuscale hat noch keinen einzigen Reaktor wirklich gebaut, schiebt aber fleißig Aktien in den Markt?
Das ist ja wie #Wirecard mit Uranbildchen.1. Das erklärt, warum die Atomys so euphorisch und aggressiv für SMR wettern: die haben Angst um „stranded Assets“
2. Das Potenzial für einen atomaren Unfall mit einem SMR ist geringer als ich bisher befürchtet hatte: was nicht existiert, kann auch nicht kaputt Gehen.
Vielen Dank.🙏
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@HaraldKi habe ic das richtig verstanden? #Nuscale hat noch keinen einzigen Reaktor wirklich gebaut, schiebt aber fleißig Aktien in den Markt?
Das ist ja wie #Wirecard mit Uranbildchen.1. Das erklärt, warum die Atomys so euphorisch und aggressiv für SMR wettern: die haben Angst um „stranded Assets“
2. Das Potenzial für einen atomaren Unfall mit einem SMR ist geringer als ich bisher befürchtet hatte: was nicht existiert, kann auch nicht kaputt Gehen.
Vielen Dank.🙏
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@HaraldKi habe ic das richtig verstanden? #Nuscale hat noch keinen einzigen Reaktor wirklich gebaut, schiebt aber fleißig Aktien in den Markt?
Das ist ja wie #Wirecard mit Uranbildchen.1. Das erklärt, warum die Atomys so euphorisch und aggressiv für SMR wettern: die haben Angst um „stranded Assets“
2. Das Potenzial für einen atomaren Unfall mit einem SMR ist geringer als ich bisher befürchtet hatte: was nicht existiert, kann auch nicht kaputt Gehen.
Vielen Dank.🙏
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@HaraldKi habe ic das richtig verstanden? #Nuscale hat noch keinen einzigen Reaktor wirklich gebaut, schiebt aber fleißig Aktien in den Markt?
Das ist ja wie #Wirecard mit Uranbildchen.1. Das erklärt, warum die Atomys so euphorisch und aggressiv für SMR wettern: die haben Angst um „stranded Assets“
2. Das Potenzial für einen atomaren Unfall mit einem SMR ist geringer als ich bisher befürchtet hatte: was nicht existiert, kann auch nicht kaputt Gehen.
Vielen Dank.🙏
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Small nuke reactors are really coming online by next year, #US #EnergySecretary #ChrisWright insists
The #UnitedStates #Nuclear Regulatory Commission has only approved two #SMR designs for commercial construction, both are actually iterations of the same design from #NuScale, one able to produce 50 MW of energy and an upgraded 77 MW model. For reference, typical #datacenter uses between 5 and 10 MW, but the mega-datacenters favored by hyperscalers can require up to 100MW.
https://www.theregister.com/2025/09/16/small_modular_reactors_2026/ -
The Rise and Fall of #NuScale: a nuclear cautionary tale
Kelly Campbell
October 29, 2024"A decade ago, NuScale, the Oregon-based small modular nuclear company born at Oregon State University, was on a roll. Promising a new era of nuclear reactors that were cheaper, easier to build and safer, their Star Wars-inspired artist renditions of a yet to be built reactor gleamed like a magic bullet.
"As of last year, NuScale was the furthest along of any reactor design in obtaining Nuclear Regulatory Commission licensing and was planning to build the first small modular nuclear reactor in the United States. Its plan was to build it in Idaho to serve energy to a consortium of small public utility districts in Utah and elsewhere, known as #UAMPS.
"This home-grown Oregon company was lauded in local and national media. According to project backers, a high-tech solution to climate change was on the horizon, and an Oregon company was leading the way. It seemed almost too good to be true.
"And it was.
"Turns out, NuScale was a #HouseOfCards. The UAMPS project’s price tag more than doubled and the timeline was pushed back repeatedly until it was seven years behind schedule. Finally, UAMPS saw the writing on the wall and wisely backed out in November, 2023.
"After losing their customer, NuScale’s stock plunged, it laid off nearly a third of its workforce, and it was sued by its investors and investigated for investor fraud. Then its CEO sold off most of his stock shares.
"NuScale’s project is the latest in a long line of failed nuclear fantasies.
"Why should you care? A different nuclear company, #XEnergy, now in partnership with #AmazonCorp, wants to build and operate small modular #nuclear reactors [#SMRs] near the #ColumbiaRiver, 250 miles upriver from #PortlandOR. #BillGates’s darling, the #Natrium reactor in #Wyoming is also plowing ahead. Both proposals are raking in the Inflation Reduction Act and other taxpayer funded subsidies. The danger: Money and time wasted on these #FalseSolutions to the #ClimateCrisis divert public resources from #renewables, #EnergyEfficiency and other faster, more cost-efficient and safer ways to address the climate crisis.
"A recent study from the Institute for Energy Economics and Financial Analysis concluded that small modular nuclear reactors are still too expensive, too slow to build and too risky to respond to the climate crisis.
"While the nuclear industry tries to pass itself off as 'clean,' it is an extremely dirty technology, beginning with #UraniumMining and #UraniumMilling which decimates #IndigenousLands. Small modular nuclear reactors produce two to thirty times the radioactive waste of older nuclear designs, waste for which we have no safe, long-term disposal site. Any community that hosts a nuclear reactor will likely be saddled with its radioactive waste – forever. This harm falls disproportionately on #Indigenous and #LowIncome communities.
:For those of us downriver, X-Energy’s plans to build at the Hanford Nuclear Site on the Columbia flies in the face of reason, as it would add more nuclear waste to the country’s largest nuclear cleanup site.
"In #Oregon, we have a state moratorium on building nuclear reactors until there is a vote of the people and a national waste repository. Every few years, the nuclear industry attempts to overturn this law at the Oregon Legislature, but so far it has been unsuccessful. This August, Umatilla County Commissioners announced they’ll attempt another legislative effort to overturn the moratorium. Keeping this moratorium is wise, given the dangerous distraction posed by the false solution of small modular nuclear reactors. Let’s learn from the NuScale debacle and keep our focus on a just transition to a clean energy future–one in which nuclear power clearly has no place."
#EnvironmentalRacism #HoltecLies
#NuclearLies #TEPCOLied
#NoNukes #NoNukesForAI #Hanford #NuclearPowerCorruptionAndLies -
The Rise and Fall of #NuScale: a nuclear cautionary tale
Kelly Campbell
October 29, 2024"A decade ago, NuScale, the Oregon-based small modular nuclear company born at Oregon State University, was on a roll. Promising a new era of nuclear reactors that were cheaper, easier to build and safer, their Star Wars-inspired artist renditions of a yet to be built reactor gleamed like a magic bullet.
"As of last year, NuScale was the furthest along of any reactor design in obtaining Nuclear Regulatory Commission licensing and was planning to build the first small modular nuclear reactor in the United States. Its plan was to build it in Idaho to serve energy to a consortium of small public utility districts in Utah and elsewhere, known as #UAMPS.
"This home-grown Oregon company was lauded in local and national media. According to project backers, a high-tech solution to climate change was on the horizon, and an Oregon company was leading the way. It seemed almost too good to be true.
"And it was.
"Turns out, NuScale was a #HouseOfCards. The UAMPS project’s price tag more than doubled and the timeline was pushed back repeatedly until it was seven years behind schedule. Finally, UAMPS saw the writing on the wall and wisely backed out in November, 2023.
"After losing their customer, NuScale’s stock plunged, it laid off nearly a third of its workforce, and it was sued by its investors and investigated for investor fraud. Then its CEO sold off most of his stock shares.
"NuScale’s project is the latest in a long line of failed nuclear fantasies.
"Why should you care? A different nuclear company, #XEnergy, now in partnership with #AmazonCorp, wants to build and operate small modular #nuclear reactors [#SMRs] near the #ColumbiaRiver, 250 miles upriver from #PortlandOR. #BillGates’s darling, the #Natrium reactor in #Wyoming is also plowing ahead. Both proposals are raking in the Inflation Reduction Act and other taxpayer funded subsidies. The danger: Money and time wasted on these #FalseSolutions to the #ClimateCrisis divert public resources from #renewables, #EnergyEfficiency and other faster, more cost-efficient and safer ways to address the climate crisis.
"A recent study from the Institute for Energy Economics and Financial Analysis concluded that small modular nuclear reactors are still too expensive, too slow to build and too risky to respond to the climate crisis.
"While the nuclear industry tries to pass itself off as 'clean,' it is an extremely dirty technology, beginning with #UraniumMining and #UraniumMilling which decimates #IndigenousLands. Small modular nuclear reactors produce two to thirty times the radioactive waste of older nuclear designs, waste for which we have no safe, long-term disposal site. Any community that hosts a nuclear reactor will likely be saddled with its radioactive waste – forever. This harm falls disproportionately on #Indigenous and #LowIncome communities.
:For those of us downriver, X-Energy’s plans to build at the Hanford Nuclear Site on the Columbia flies in the face of reason, as it would add more nuclear waste to the country’s largest nuclear cleanup site.
"In #Oregon, we have a state moratorium on building nuclear reactors until there is a vote of the people and a national waste repository. Every few years, the nuclear industry attempts to overturn this law at the Oregon Legislature, but so far it has been unsuccessful. This August, Umatilla County Commissioners announced they’ll attempt another legislative effort to overturn the moratorium. Keeping this moratorium is wise, given the dangerous distraction posed by the false solution of small modular nuclear reactors. Let’s learn from the NuScale debacle and keep our focus on a just transition to a clean energy future–one in which nuclear power clearly has no place."
#EnvironmentalRacism #HoltecLies
#NuclearLies #TEPCOLied
#NoNukes #NoNukesForAI #Hanford #NuclearPowerCorruptionAndLies -
The Rise and Fall of #NuScale: a nuclear cautionary tale
Kelly Campbell
October 29, 2024"A decade ago, NuScale, the Oregon-based small modular nuclear company born at Oregon State University, was on a roll. Promising a new era of nuclear reactors that were cheaper, easier to build and safer, their Star Wars-inspired artist renditions of a yet to be built reactor gleamed like a magic bullet.
"As of last year, NuScale was the furthest along of any reactor design in obtaining Nuclear Regulatory Commission licensing and was planning to build the first small modular nuclear reactor in the United States. Its plan was to build it in Idaho to serve energy to a consortium of small public utility districts in Utah and elsewhere, known as #UAMPS.
"This home-grown Oregon company was lauded in local and national media. According to project backers, a high-tech solution to climate change was on the horizon, and an Oregon company was leading the way. It seemed almost too good to be true.
"And it was.
"Turns out, NuScale was a #HouseOfCards. The UAMPS project’s price tag more than doubled and the timeline was pushed back repeatedly until it was seven years behind schedule. Finally, UAMPS saw the writing on the wall and wisely backed out in November, 2023.
"After losing their customer, NuScale’s stock plunged, it laid off nearly a third of its workforce, and it was sued by its investors and investigated for investor fraud. Then its CEO sold off most of his stock shares.
"NuScale’s project is the latest in a long line of failed nuclear fantasies.
"Why should you care? A different nuclear company, #XEnergy, now in partnership with #AmazonCorp, wants to build and operate small modular #nuclear reactors [#SMRs] near the #ColumbiaRiver, 250 miles upriver from #PortlandOR. #BillGates’s darling, the #Natrium reactor in #Wyoming is also plowing ahead. Both proposals are raking in the Inflation Reduction Act and other taxpayer funded subsidies. The danger: Money and time wasted on these #FalseSolutions to the #ClimateCrisis divert public resources from #renewables, #EnergyEfficiency and other faster, more cost-efficient and safer ways to address the climate crisis.
"A recent study from the Institute for Energy Economics and Financial Analysis concluded that small modular nuclear reactors are still too expensive, too slow to build and too risky to respond to the climate crisis.
"While the nuclear industry tries to pass itself off as 'clean,' it is an extremely dirty technology, beginning with #UraniumMining and #UraniumMilling which decimates #IndigenousLands. Small modular nuclear reactors produce two to thirty times the radioactive waste of older nuclear designs, waste for which we have no safe, long-term disposal site. Any community that hosts a nuclear reactor will likely be saddled with its radioactive waste – forever. This harm falls disproportionately on #Indigenous and #LowIncome communities.
:For those of us downriver, X-Energy’s plans to build at the Hanford Nuclear Site on the Columbia flies in the face of reason, as it would add more nuclear waste to the country’s largest nuclear cleanup site.
"In #Oregon, we have a state moratorium on building nuclear reactors until there is a vote of the people and a national waste repository. Every few years, the nuclear industry attempts to overturn this law at the Oregon Legislature, but so far it has been unsuccessful. This August, Umatilla County Commissioners announced they’ll attempt another legislative effort to overturn the moratorium. Keeping this moratorium is wise, given the dangerous distraction posed by the false solution of small modular nuclear reactors. Let’s learn from the NuScale debacle and keep our focus on a just transition to a clean energy future–one in which nuclear power clearly has no place."
#EnvironmentalRacism #HoltecLies
#NuclearLies #TEPCOLied
#NoNukes #NoNukesForAI #Hanford #NuclearPowerCorruptionAndLies -
The Rise and Fall of #NuScale: a nuclear cautionary tale
Kelly Campbell
October 29, 2024"A decade ago, NuScale, the Oregon-based small modular nuclear company born at Oregon State University, was on a roll. Promising a new era of nuclear reactors that were cheaper, easier to build and safer, their Star Wars-inspired artist renditions of a yet to be built reactor gleamed like a magic bullet.
"As of last year, NuScale was the furthest along of any reactor design in obtaining Nuclear Regulatory Commission licensing and was planning to build the first small modular nuclear reactor in the United States. Its plan was to build it in Idaho to serve energy to a consortium of small public utility districts in Utah and elsewhere, known as #UAMPS.
"This home-grown Oregon company was lauded in local and national media. According to project backers, a high-tech solution to climate change was on the horizon, and an Oregon company was leading the way. It seemed almost too good to be true.
"And it was.
"Turns out, NuScale was a #HouseOfCards. The UAMPS project’s price tag more than doubled and the timeline was pushed back repeatedly until it was seven years behind schedule. Finally, UAMPS saw the writing on the wall and wisely backed out in November, 2023.
"After losing their customer, NuScale’s stock plunged, it laid off nearly a third of its workforce, and it was sued by its investors and investigated for investor fraud. Then its CEO sold off most of his stock shares.
"NuScale’s project is the latest in a long line of failed nuclear fantasies.
"Why should you care? A different nuclear company, #XEnergy, now in partnership with #AmazonCorp, wants to build and operate small modular #nuclear reactors [#SMRs] near the #ColumbiaRiver, 250 miles upriver from #PortlandOR. #BillGates’s darling, the #Natrium reactor in #Wyoming is also plowing ahead. Both proposals are raking in the Inflation Reduction Act and other taxpayer funded subsidies. The danger: Money and time wasted on these #FalseSolutions to the #ClimateCrisis divert public resources from #renewables, #EnergyEfficiency and other faster, more cost-efficient and safer ways to address the climate crisis.
"A recent study from the Institute for Energy Economics and Financial Analysis concluded that small modular nuclear reactors are still too expensive, too slow to build and too risky to respond to the climate crisis.
"While the nuclear industry tries to pass itself off as 'clean,' it is an extremely dirty technology, beginning with #UraniumMining and #UraniumMilling which decimates #IndigenousLands. Small modular nuclear reactors produce two to thirty times the radioactive waste of older nuclear designs, waste for which we have no safe, long-term disposal site. Any community that hosts a nuclear reactor will likely be saddled with its radioactive waste – forever. This harm falls disproportionately on #Indigenous and #LowIncome communities.
:For those of us downriver, X-Energy’s plans to build at the Hanford Nuclear Site on the Columbia flies in the face of reason, as it would add more nuclear waste to the country’s largest nuclear cleanup site.
"In #Oregon, we have a state moratorium on building nuclear reactors until there is a vote of the people and a national waste repository. Every few years, the nuclear industry attempts to overturn this law at the Oregon Legislature, but so far it has been unsuccessful. This August, Umatilla County Commissioners announced they’ll attempt another legislative effort to overturn the moratorium. Keeping this moratorium is wise, given the dangerous distraction posed by the false solution of small modular nuclear reactors. Let’s learn from the NuScale debacle and keep our focus on a just transition to a clean energy future–one in which nuclear power clearly has no place."
#EnvironmentalRacism #HoltecLies
#NuclearLies #TEPCOLied
#NoNukes #NoNukesForAI #Hanford #NuclearPowerCorruptionAndLies -
The Rise and Fall of #NuScale: a nuclear cautionary tale
Kelly Campbell
October 29, 2024"A decade ago, NuScale, the Oregon-based small modular nuclear company born at Oregon State University, was on a roll. Promising a new era of nuclear reactors that were cheaper, easier to build and safer, their Star Wars-inspired artist renditions of a yet to be built reactor gleamed like a magic bullet.
"As of last year, NuScale was the furthest along of any reactor design in obtaining Nuclear Regulatory Commission licensing and was planning to build the first small modular nuclear reactor in the United States. Its plan was to build it in Idaho to serve energy to a consortium of small public utility districts in Utah and elsewhere, known as #UAMPS.
"This home-grown Oregon company was lauded in local and national media. According to project backers, a high-tech solution to climate change was on the horizon, and an Oregon company was leading the way. It seemed almost too good to be true.
"And it was.
"Turns out, NuScale was a #HouseOfCards. The UAMPS project’s price tag more than doubled and the timeline was pushed back repeatedly until it was seven years behind schedule. Finally, UAMPS saw the writing on the wall and wisely backed out in November, 2023.
"After losing their customer, NuScale’s stock plunged, it laid off nearly a third of its workforce, and it was sued by its investors and investigated for investor fraud. Then its CEO sold off most of his stock shares.
"NuScale’s project is the latest in a long line of failed nuclear fantasies.
"Why should you care? A different nuclear company, #XEnergy, now in partnership with #AmazonCorp, wants to build and operate small modular #nuclear reactors [#SMRs] near the #ColumbiaRiver, 250 miles upriver from #PortlandOR. #BillGates’s darling, the #Natrium reactor in #Wyoming is also plowing ahead. Both proposals are raking in the Inflation Reduction Act and other taxpayer funded subsidies. The danger: Money and time wasted on these #FalseSolutions to the #ClimateCrisis divert public resources from #renewables, #EnergyEfficiency and other faster, more cost-efficient and safer ways to address the climate crisis.
"A recent study from the Institute for Energy Economics and Financial Analysis concluded that small modular nuclear reactors are still too expensive, too slow to build and too risky to respond to the climate crisis.
"While the nuclear industry tries to pass itself off as 'clean,' it is an extremely dirty technology, beginning with #UraniumMining and #UraniumMilling which decimates #IndigenousLands. Small modular nuclear reactors produce two to thirty times the radioactive waste of older nuclear designs, waste for which we have no safe, long-term disposal site. Any community that hosts a nuclear reactor will likely be saddled with its radioactive waste – forever. This harm falls disproportionately on #Indigenous and #LowIncome communities.
:For those of us downriver, X-Energy’s plans to build at the Hanford Nuclear Site on the Columbia flies in the face of reason, as it would add more nuclear waste to the country’s largest nuclear cleanup site.
"In #Oregon, we have a state moratorium on building nuclear reactors until there is a vote of the people and a national waste repository. Every few years, the nuclear industry attempts to overturn this law at the Oregon Legislature, but so far it has been unsuccessful. This August, Umatilla County Commissioners announced they’ll attempt another legislative effort to overturn the moratorium. Keeping this moratorium is wise, given the dangerous distraction posed by the false solution of small modular nuclear reactors. Let’s learn from the NuScale debacle and keep our focus on a just transition to a clean energy future–one in which nuclear power clearly has no place."
#EnvironmentalRacism #HoltecLies
#NuclearLies #TEPCOLied
#NoNukes #NoNukesForAI #Hanford #NuclearPowerCorruptionAndLies -
Five Things the “#NuclearBros” Don’t Want You to Know About #SmallModularReactors #SMRs
by #EdwinLyman, director of nuclear power safety at the Union of Concerned Scientists (#UCS)
April 30, 2024"Even casual followers of energy and climate issues have probably heard about the alleged wonders of small modular nuclear reactors (SMRs). This is due in no small part to the 'nuclear bros': an active and seemingly tireless group of #NuclearPower advocates [#Trolls] who dominate social media discussions on energy by promoting SMRs and other 'advanced' #nuclear technologies as the only real solution for the #ClimateCrisis.
"But as I showed in my 2013 and 2021 reports, the hype surrounding SMRs is way overblown, and my conclusions remain valid today.
"Unfortunately, much of this SMR happy talk is rooted in #misinformation, which always brings me back to the same question: If the nuclear bros have such a great SMR story to tell, why do they have to exaggerate so much?
What are SMRs?
"SMRs are nuclear reactors that are 'small' (defined as 300 megawatts of electrical power or less), can be largely assembled in a centralized facility, and would be installed in a modular fashion at power generation sites. Some proposed SMRs are so tiny (20 megawatts or less) that they are called 'micro' reactors. SMRs are distinct from today’s conventional nuclear plants, which are typically around 1,000 megawatts and were largely custom-built. Some SMR designs, such as #NuScale, are modified versions of operating water-cooled reactors, while others are radically different designs that use coolants other than water, such as liquid sodium, helium gas, or even molten salts.
"To date, however, theoretical interest in SMRs has not translated into many actual reactor orders. The only SMR currently under construction is in China. And in the United States, only one company—#TerraPower, founded by Microsoft’s Bill Gates — has applied to the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) for a permit to build a power reactor (but at 345 megawatts, it technically isn’t even an SMR).
"The #NuclearIndustry has pinned its hopes on SMRs primarily because some recent large reactor projects, including #Vogtle units 3 and 4 in the state of #GeorgiaUSA, have taken far longer to build and cost far more than originally projected. The failure of these projects to come in on time and under budget undermines arguments that modern nuclear power plants can overcome the problems that have plagued the nuclear industry in the past.
"Developers in the industry and the US Department of Energy say that SMRs can be less costly and quicker to build than large reactors and that their modular nature makes it easier to balance power supply and demand. They also argue that reactors in a variety of sizes would be useful for a range of applications beyond grid-scale electrical power, including providing process heat to industrial plants and power to #DataCenters, #cryptocurrency mining operations, petrochemical production, and even electrical vehicle [#EV] charging stations.
"Here are five facts about SMRs that the nuclear industry and the 'nuclear bros' who push its message don’t want you, the public, to know."
#HoltecLies #NuclearPower #NuclearLies #TEPCOLied #NoNukes #NoNukesForAI #NuclearPowerCorruptionAndLies
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Будущее дата-центров — ИИ и ядерные реакторы
Малый ядерный реактор NuScale Power Сейчас ЦОДы потребляют примерно 2% электроэнергии в мире , но в будущем их доля значительно возрастёт: по некоторым прогнозам, превысит 20% к 2030 году , а в отдельных странах вроде Ирландии превысит 30%. Идея питания ЦОДов от малых ядерных реакторов кажется вполне здравой. В конце концов, это экологически чистый источник энергии, который не загрязняет окрестности дымом, шумом и вредными газами.
https://habr.com/ru/companies/ruvds/articles/871144/
#ruvds_статьи #xAI #xAI_Colossus #Илон_Маск #датацентр #ЦОД #ядерный_реактор #Microsoft #Apple #Meta #атомная_энергетика #tensor_processing_units #TPU #Baltra #VoltaGrid #Small_Modular_Nuclear #SMR #NuScale #малый_модульный_реактор #АСММ #атомная_станция #ММР #экология #ПАТЭС #Oklo #BWX_Technologies #RollsRoyce #TRISO
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Not to mention all the #WaterConsumption! There are plans to restart aging nuclear reactor as well as untested SMR reactors! Will #AI’s huge energy demands spur a #nuclear renaissance?
By Davide Castelvecchi
25 October 2024Do small modular reactors carry extra risks?
"In some cases, small modular reactors 'could actually push nuclear power in a more dangerous direction', says #EdwinLyman. 'Advanced isn’t always better.'
"In particular, Lyman points out that the pebble-bed designs drawn up by #XEnergy and #Kairos would rely on high-assay low-enriched #uranium (#HALEU), which comprises 10–20% uranium-235 — compared with the 5% enrichment level required by most existing reactors (and by #NuScale’s reactor). HALEU is still classified as low-enrichment fuel (as opposed to the highly enriched uranium used to make nuclear bombs), but that distinction is misleading, Lyman says. In June, he and his collaborators — including physicist Richard Garwin, who led the design of the first hydrogen bomb — warned in a Science article that a bomb could be built with a few hundred kilograms of HALEU, with no need for further enrichment.
"Smaller reactors are also likely to produce more nuclear waste and to use fuel less efficiently, according to work reported in 2022 by Macfarlane and her collaborators. In a full-size reactor, most of the neutrons produced by the splitting of uranium travel through a large volume of fuel, meaning that they have a high probability of hitting another nucleus, rather than colliding with the walls of the reactor vessel or escaping into the surrounding building. 'When you shrink the reactor, there’s less material in there, so you will have more neutron leakage,' Macfarlane says. These rogue neutrons can be absorbed by other atomic nuclei — which would then themselves become radioactive."
Original article:
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-024-03490-3Archived version:
https://archive.ph/mODpF#selection-952.0-991.164#AI #ArtificialIntelligence #Cryptocurrency #DataCenters #RethinkNotRestart #NoNukesForAI #NoNukes #NuclearHype #NeutronEmbrittlement #NuclearWaste #NotCarbonFree
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CW: ☢️ Atomkraftanalytiker: Troen på atomkraft er ofte udtryk for inkompetence
> [Under] COP28-klimamødet i Dubai i december vedtog [20 nationer] en »deklaration om at tredoble atomkraften i 2050«.
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> »Det er en fysisk umulighed,« siger Schneider.
Læs hele artiklen (læsetid: 11 min.):
🎁 https://www.information.dk/udland/2024/04/atomkraftanalytiker-troen-paa-atomkraft-ofte-udtryk-inkompetence?kupon=eyJpYXQiOjE3MTMyNDg4NzMsInN1YiI6IjE3NDE4MTo4MTkxNDEifQ.tgGcNfOfbQrWgfqyk6HynQ (gavelink: artiklen kan læsese uden abonnement)
Hvad er et trut uden hashtags:
#AmericanNuclearSociety
#ANS
#atomindustri
#atomkapacitet
#atomkraft
#atomkraftindustrien
#COP28
#FAJT
#ForeningenAtomkraftJatak
#IAEA
#INSF
#InternationalNuclearSecurityForum
#InternationalPanelOnFissileMaterials
#IPFM
#klimahandling
#MycleScneider
#NEA
#NEI
#NuclearEnergyAgency
#NuclearEngineeringInternational
#NuclearNewswire
#NuScale
#NW
#OECD
#SMR
#solenergi
#WNA
#WNISR
#WNN
#WNPR
#WorldNuclearAssociation
#WorldNuclearIndustryStatusReport
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@johnquiggin NuScale Power has scammed hundreds of millions of dollars from a range of government and private funding groups.
They're the darlings of pro-nuclear techbos and other gullible fools who put their wishful thinking and hatred of cost-effective genuine renewable energy ahead of reality.
Recently, NuScale Power made an incredibly dodgy financial manoeuvre (special-purpose acquisition company (SPAC)) to get listed in the stock exchange. This will perpetuate the grift and make some of the founders rich, but get them no closer to making the AM/FM step (Actual Machines vs Fucking Magic).NuScale Power is touted by RWNJs such as the LNP in Australia as the future of energy production because they cannot stomach the idea of renewables.
There's one more important thing you need to know about NuScale's SMR: the project is dead.
https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2023/nov/09/small-modular-nuclear-reactor-that-was-hailed-by-coalition-as-future-cancelled-due-to-rising-costs#NuclearPower #SmallNuclearReactors #SMR #Renewables #AusPol #NuScale #NuScalePower
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"Small modular nuclear reactors: a history of failure"
"Global hype around small reactor designs to replace fossil fuels is on the rise everywhere but few, if any, are likely to ever be built."
"SMRs so far? Shut down"
“Without exception, small reactors cost too much for the little electricity they produce”
"Not so “waste-annihilating” reactors go bust"
https://www.climateandcapitalmedia.com/small-modular-nuclear-reactors-a-history-of-failure/
17.1.2024
#AKW #ASTRID #Atomkraft #BREST #CAREM #Kernenergie #NPP #NuScale #mPower #SMR #TerraPower
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"Small modular nuclear reactors: a history of failure"
"Global hype around small reactor designs to replace fossil fuels is on the rise everywhere but few, if any, are likely to ever be built."
"SMRs so far? Shut down"
“Without exception, small reactors cost too much for the little electricity they produce”
"Not so “waste-annihilating” reactors go bust"
https://www.climateandcapitalmedia.com/small-modular-nuclear-reactors-a-history-of-failure/
17.1.2024
#AKW #ASTRID #Atomkraft #BREST #CAREM #Kernenergie #NPP #NuScale #mPower #SMR #TerraPower
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"Small modular nuclear reactors: a history of failure"
"Global hype around small reactor designs to replace fossil fuels is on the rise everywhere but few, if any, are likely to ever be built."
"SMRs so far? Shut down"
“Without exception, small reactors cost too much for the little electricity they produce”
"Not so “waste-annihilating” reactors go bust"
https://www.climateandcapitalmedia.com/small-modular-nuclear-reactors-a-history-of-failure/
17.1.2024
#AKW #ASTRID #Atomkraft #BREST #CAREM #Kernenergie #NPP #NuScale #mPower #SMR #TerraPower
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"Small modular nuclear reactors: a history of failure"
"Global hype around small reactor designs to replace fossil fuels is on the rise everywhere but few, if any, are likely to ever be built."
"SMRs so far? Shut down"
“Without exception, small reactors cost too much for the little electricity they produce”
"Not so “waste-annihilating” reactors go bust"
https://www.climateandcapitalmedia.com/small-modular-nuclear-reactors-a-history-of-failure/
17.1.2024
#AKW #ASTRID #Atomkraft #BREST #CAREM #Kernenergie #NPP #NuScale #mPower #SMR #TerraPower
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"Small modular nuclear reactors: a history of failure"
"Global hype around small reactor designs to replace fossil fuels is on the rise everywhere but few, if any, are likely to ever be built."
"SMRs so far? Shut down"
“Without exception, small reactors cost too much for the little electricity they produce”
"Not so “waste-annihilating” reactors go bust"
https://www.climateandcapitalmedia.com/small-modular-nuclear-reactors-a-history-of-failure/
17.1.2024
#AKW #ASTRID #Atomkraft #BREST #CAREM #Kernenergie #NPP #NuScale #mPower #SMR #TerraPower
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Ренесанс ядерної енергетики: Україна законтрактувала у Westinghouse обладнання АР1000 для 5-го блоку ХАЕС https://itc.ua/ua/novini/renesans-yadernoyi-energetyky-ukrayina-zakontraktuvala-u-westinghouse-obladnannya-ar1000-dlya-5-go-bloku-haes/ #Малімодульніреактори #HoltecInternational #Ядернаенергія #Westinghouse #Технології #Енергетика #Энергоатом #Україна #NuScale #SMR-160 #Новини #VOYG-6 #VOYGR #Atom #Уран #MMR #SMR #АЕС #США
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Перша міні-АЕС в США — нанівець. Чому NuScale закрила проєкт й коли чекати малі модульні реактори в Україні (спойлер: не скоро) https://itc.ua/ua/articles/persha-mini-aes-v-ssha-nuscale-mmr-v-ukrayini/ #Малімодульніреактори #HoltecInternational #Ядернаенергія #Westinghouse #Технології #Енергетика #Энергоатом #Україна #NuScale #SMR-160 #Статті #VOYG-6 #VOYGR #Atom #Уран #MMR #SMR #АЭС #США
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> Projected prices at #NuScale have soared from $58/megawatt-hour in 2017 to $89.. nearly double the range of wind and solar. By 2030, #SMR prices are likely to be triple... A recent piece by former NRC Chair #AllisonMacFarlane eviscerated the technology’s potential with a devastating analysis, referring to it primarily as a means of attracting #GovernmentHandOuts and “ #StupidMoney.”.. while #SMRs drown in red ink and tape, the industry still burns and irradiates the planet
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#Nuclear fallout: Scrapped reactors and Manchin’s move
By HANNAH NORTHEY, 11/09/2023
"A highly anticipated advanced nuclear energy project was scrapped this week, signaling that the technology may have a rocky future despite billions of dollars in federal investment.
"#NuScalePower and a group of local electric utilities announced on Wednesday that they’re abandoning plans to build six first-of-a-kind modular reactors near Idaho Falls, #Idaho, writes Zach Bright. The project was set to receive as much as $1.4 billion from the Department of Energy — in a so-called cost-share deal — but couldn’t attract enough power subscribers.
"Small, factory-built reactors have long been touted as a possible lifeline for the nation’s aging nuclear sector and a carbon-free way to replace retiring coal-fired power plants. But some experts have questioned whether the industry can grow fast enough to curb power emissions.
"'It could be seen as another notch towards the idea of ‘this is a bit more #hype than reality,' said Eric Gimon, a senior fellow for energy think tank Energy Innovation. Electricity from the #NuScale reactors, he said, was ultimately too costly for local utilities."
#NRC #DOE #NoNukes #NoNewNukes #PriceAndersonAct #SmallModularNuclearReactors #NuclearHype
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Utah NuScale Nuclear Plant Project Canceled Due To Lack Of Interest From Utilities - Intended to be the first 6-unit deployment of NuScale’s 77 MW VOYGR small modular ... - https://hackaday.com/2023/11/10/utah-nuke-reactors-canceled-due-to-lack-of-interest/ #smallmodularreactor #nuscale #news
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First planned small #nuclearreactor plant in the #US has been canceled
Wednesday #NuScale and and the utility planning to build the first small, #modularnuclear plant in the US announced it was canceling the project. None of NuScalee's potential customers had advanced any project nearly as far as the #CarbonFreePower Project, so it is now uncertain whether the company can build any commercial reactors before the decade ends. https://arstechnica.com/science/2023/11/first-planned-small-nuclear-reactor-plant-in-the-us-has-been-canceled/ #nuclear