#saskpower — Public Fediverse posts

Why do all my province’s utilities offer only email (!!) or email/SMS 2FA without an option for a 2FA code manager?! Sigh. We’re a long was from passkey support here in #SK #SaskPower #SaskTel

SaskPower customer unhappy about bill after generating more solar power in month than she used | CBC News https://bit.ly/3MkTlgW #SaskPower #Saskatchewan #SolarPower #skpoli #cdnpoli @cdnpoli

SaskPower customer unhappy about bill after generating more solar power in month than she used | CBC News https://bit.ly/3MkTlgW #SaskPower #Saskatchewan #SolarPower #skpoli #cdnpoli @cdnpoli

@daveoswald On & SK's choice of a light water reactor, GE-Hitachi BWRX-300 makes them dependent on enriched Uranium. Currently only one source of enriched U in North America, the Urenco plant New Mexico USA. Most recent accident Dec. 4 2022 https://www.wise-uranium.org/eoples.html#NEF If this plant fails these reactors would be dependent on overseas supply of enriched Uranium. What's enrichment?https://www.cameco.com/uranium_101/fuel-processing/enrichment/ #EnergyTransition #SMR #ClimateAction #ClimatePolicy #cdnpoli #ONpoli #skpoli #SaskPower

Are small #nuclear reactors a viable non-emitting energy solution? This excellent #explainer lays out the challenges pretty clearly. To sum up, SMRs are:
1. entirely THEORETICAL, as none has yet been built;
2. EXPENSIVE, with IEA estimating costs could run to double those of conventional nuclear and the Sask Party floating a figure of $5 billion per reactor;
3. SLOW TO DEPLOY, with even aspirational targets not having the first come online until 2028 in #Ontario, 2034 in #Saskatchewan, while “An early SMR built by Oregon’s NuScale was originally supposed to generate electricity by 2016, but the completion date has since been pushed to 2029 or 2030”; and
4. even more VULNERABLE TO SUPPLY CHAIN DISRUPTION than oil, with the models Ontario and Sask are building requiring enriched uranium fuel, which will have to come from outside Canada.

https://www.nationalobserver.com/2023/01/04/news/what-is-an-smr-canada

#EnergyTransition #SMR #ClimateAction #ClimatePolicy #cdnpoli #ONpoli #skpoli #SaskPower

Are small #nuclear reactors a viable non-emitting energy solution? This excellent #explainer lays out the challenges pretty clearly. To sum up, SMRs are:
1. entirely THEORETICAL, as none has yet been built;
2. EXPENSIVE, with IEA estimating costs could run to double those of conventional nuclear and the Sask Party floating a figure of $5 billion per reactor;
3. SLOW TO DEPLOY, with even aspirational targets not having the first come online until 2028 in #Ontario, 2034 in #Saskatchewan, while “An early SMR built by Oregon’s NuScale was originally supposed to generate electricity by 2016, but the completion date has since been pushed to 2029 or 2030”; and
4. even more VULNERABLE TO SUPPLY CHAIN DISRUPTION than oil, with the models Ontario and Sask are building requiring enriched uranium fuel, which will have to come from outside Canada.

https://www.nationalobserver.com/2023/01/04/news/what-is-an-smr-canada

#EnergyTransition #SMR #ClimateAction #ClimatePolicy #cdnpoli #ONpoli #skpoli #SaskPower