The Climate, Environment and Energy Thread

[DJC]

DJC, you have to give up on only debating this at the high power end of the SMR range, your discussing systems that are the upper limit of SMR, I'm talking about systems designed to power 2000 to 3000 homes, 1/300th the size of the SMRs you are referring to, and not a drop of water being used in any of the designs.

As for Mav he lists a video about hydrogen that he claims debunks hydrogen, but if I recall correctly Sabine's hydrogen video from a few months back actually states that hydrogen works with nuclear hand in glove, she actually makes that point twice, when she describes pink hydrogen and again when she summarise the future options. Which is consistent with her position that the solution to the world's problem must be as diverse as the problem.

Horses for courses, you don't construct a building made out of steel, glass, bricks and timber by just hiring a carpenter.

So you can't answer the questions I posed LP?

I'll make it easy for you; how are the reactors on the latest Virginia and Astute class nuclear powered submarines cooled?

Answer: They have pressurised water reactors (PWRs).

But you said:

Modern modular reactors are self contained and fully enclosed, they are referred to as nuclear batteries and are water free, much like the devices on aircraft carriers, nuclear submarines, space probes, etc., etc.,

You're just making stuff up.

Look up Professor Alfredo Caro of The George Washington University.  He recently wrote, "“There are plenty of technologies now—50 different models around the world. Once one of them gets into a financially viable equation, that will capture the entire market and I think that this will happen with water-cooled small reactors.”

Of course, that's only his expert opinion ... but the fact that the only SMR design certified by the US Nuclear Regulatory Commission, is water-cooled lends weight to his opinion. That design was certified in January this year.