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New Theories / Re: An essay in futility, too long to read :)
« on: Today at 07:25:24 »
This isn't wrong
https://blog.ucsusa.org/edwin-lyman/five-things-the-nuclear-bros-dont-want-you-to-know-about-small-modular-reactors/
But the points that matters to me, for the moment, will be two. One is adding to extremely probable climate risks by spreading them out, instead of building larger and centralized. Not that it would make a catastrophe easier to handle, as we can see by Fukushima and Chernobyl.
https://www.nationalobserver.com/2024/03/11/news/conditions-fukushima-reactors-unclear-13-years
The other?
Well, that one should be about maintenance in a world losing a lot of infra structural integrity. And a world involved in wars, steered by politicians and other vested interests whispering in their ears.
costs etc are unimportant to me, as long as basics exist.
https://blog.ucsusa.org/edwin-lyman/five-things-the-nuclear-bros-dont-want-you-to-know-about-small-modular-reactors/
But the points that matters to me, for the moment, will be two. One is adding to extremely probable climate risks by spreading them out, instead of building larger and centralized. Not that it would make a catastrophe easier to handle, as we can see by Fukushima and Chernobyl.
https://www.nationalobserver.com/2024/03/11/news/conditions-fukushima-reactors-unclear-13-years
The other?
Well, that one should be about maintenance in a world losing a lot of infra structural integrity. And a world involved in wars, steered by politicians and other vested interests whispering in their ears.
costs etc are unimportant to me, as long as basics exist.