The next stage of the process will see companies able to bid for Government contracts with successful bids from the six going to contract award stage next summer.
Next summer is soon
The next stage of the process will see companies able to bid for Government contracts with successful bids from the six going to contract award stage next summer.
Next summer is soon
What is the benefit of smaller reactors? It seems like they would be worse in just about every way? Wouldn’t smaller reactors be less efficient as you need more sites/material/personnel to generate the same power? Wouldn’t needing more sites also make logistics and regulatory approval more difficult?
Economies of scale in construction and disposal. Ease of transportation. Modularity. Manufacturers can have better oversight of them, and design flaws can be found and fixed easier when you have, say, 1000 production articles as opposed to 4 articles.
Plus, if you put six of them together in a 2x3 configuration, you get a massive power output multiplier (source: Factorio)
Great call on the source - solar just doesn’t scale like nuclear does!
benefits? reactor assemblies can be built in a factory.
worse in every way? no.
more sites, more logistics? no. multiple small reactors are installed at the same site