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First planned small nuclear reactor plant in the US has been canceled (arstechnica.com)

submitted 11 months ago by L4s to c/technology

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

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[–] [email protected] -1 points 11 months ago (4 children)

Does solar power use some rare earth minerals and stuff like that? They own those, but you probably need them for nuclear and others

[–] NoSpiritAnimal 14 points 11 months ago (3 children)

I can't put a nuclear station on my roof or in my basement

[–] [email protected] 4 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Were you... Were you going to?

[–] [email protected] 7 points 11 months ago

I mean, a teenage boy scout once built something like an amateur reactor in a shed in his parents backyard shed, so I see nothing wrong with a tractor on the roof or in a basement.

[–] willis936 1 points 11 months ago

Watch me.

[–] [email protected] -2 points 11 months ago

Currently, no. With enough investments in nuclear and less fear mongering, it's possible that's be an option. Small scale nuclear reactors can exist and can be safe, and the amount of nuclear material they'd need is fairly small.

[–] joel_feila 4 points 11 months ago

Yeah every power source needs some materials.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Silicon, iirc

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago

Made from sand. A very rareaterial.

[–] afraid_of_zombies 2 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Yes and so do the batteries and all the controls.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 11 months ago (1 children)

There's not necessarily a need for batteries. I'm generating energy and use it up directly, and inject the overage back into the grid against a compensation, and then at night or during times of heavy cloud coverage, I draw power from the grid pretty much on par with the money I received. So far it's a zero sum game or slightly profitable.

[–] afraid_of_zombies -5 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Ok cool. So you outsourced the battery needs to someone else. Good job. Hey I figured out how to fix global warming, all we need to do is move all the stuff that causes it to different countries.

Didn't address the controls I noticed.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Please read up on how power grids work, before returning to this conversation. Thanks.

[–] afraid_of_zombies -3 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Got a point go ahead and make it.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

What he means is it's not getting stored in a battery