The Climate, Environment and Energy Thread

[DJC]

You are being quite selective in your choice of examples and language, is it deliberate or accidentally naive?

An SMR of the type you refer to is the 1980s version, originally proposed by GE, although few were built, the are several companies developing fast breeder reactors of that type to use U238.

What I'm referring to are modular thorium or pebble bed reactors, and they are the size of a small house at the biggest, and as explained in the video, further the generation currently being developed is about the size of the semi-trailor. Which is why they are sometimes referred to as nuclear batteries.

We are discussing 2020 technology, and you are telling us it's no good with 1980s example designs.

The world has moved on beyond 1980 and it is not science fiction! .

You make me laugh LP.

How many SMRs are in operation?

When was the first SMR approved for construction in the USA?

When are they going to build a helicopter large enough to transport a reactor?

And what about the nuclear power plants used in state of the art submarines?  There’s water cooled and nothing else.

Of course there are other options for cooling SMRs but water is the most economical and reliable method.  No SMRs using other cooling mediums have been approved or progressed beyond initial planning.