Yes, vastly better. You just learned about SL-1 or something?

Public ownership would be a great idea, but it would still incur costs in the immediate sense. Things have to be updated and maintained.

“The blasting had been planned for 5.30pm but was delayed after a 36-year-old pro-nuclear protester scaled an electricity pylon near the towers in protest at their demolition.”

Andreas Fichtner is now facing a legal battle for this protest. If you want to help out, please consider a donation.

Forbidden licorice.

Great overview, but I have two notes:

1. A mention is made of the proliferation risks due to purified plutonium. But no mention is made of the difference between weaponsgrade Pu-239 and useless Pu-240. Pu-240 has the annoying characteristic that it can ‘spontaneously’ fission, which of course for is highly undesirable in warheads. These are mixed up and hard to separate. This simple fact makes proliferation risks at best a theoretical scenario.
2. Vitrification of the fission products is explained well, but is still accompanied with the obligatory “hundreds of thousands of years” comment. This is incorrect. After 300 years, these fission products are no longer radiotoxic.

Several countries, and I guess Italy is among them, have decommissioning regulation where the old unit first has to ‘cool off’ for a few decades before the building can be torn down.

So, to answer of whether it is this or that, I answer: yes.

Did not expect this to go to any other company but a Russian one tbh.

Really impressive that their design can be transported as a 200 MWe module. That truly brings the SMR promise closer!

Well, he knows about this community now! 🙂

“Like, you have no idea what we’re talking about, but you’re very opinionated about it.”

Thought that was an apt summary of your posts on Kyle.

Great question. This might actually play a role here. Nuclear energy has the lowest land impact of any energy source. They better involve the local population in this though.

Adding pictures seems to work wonky: I now have to add them several times as they appear to remove themselves when writing out the post.

Yay, thanks!

What a crime against the climate and environment ☹️

Orban hasn’t been around for that long.

Correct, Hungary’s political development is on a worrying trajectory.

De meeste SMRs zijn gewoon bewezen tech (PWR ontwerpen, sommige BWR, die we al decennia bouwen). Maar inderdaad is dit duur. Ga maar eens opzoeken wat het gaat kosten met zon en wind…

Hoe dat zo?

24 GWe of nuclear capacity? That’s very ambitious. It would offer Uganda a rise in available energy from 5 TWh to almost 200 (!) TWh. I wish them all the best.

Sad news that is not directly relared (I hope) to this news, but… https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cg6761ggxz1o

“A witness told the Dennik N website that she heard three or four shots and saw Mr Fico fall to the ground. She saw wounds to his head and chest.”

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