even if you’re ardently pro-nuclear, SMRs are just a failure purely on the economics and always have been. And that’s before wind/solar/battery made them just obsolete. So SMRs are the perfect tech when you want an excuse not to do anything useful. pivot-to-ai.com/2024/10/17/g...
Google has signed a deal with California startup Kairos Power for six or seven small modular reactors. The first is due in 2030 and the rest by 2035, for a total of 500 megawatts. [Google blog; pre…
small modular reactors: neither small nor modular. discuss
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I get that this is likely an effort to greenwash their image and I wish it was for something other than slop, but is it a good thing that these companies spend a bunch of money investing in power sources that have some potential rather than just buying back more stock or whatever these vampires do?