These are the small, buried reactors right? The ones that we tested on paper but haven't gotten NRC/DOE to sign off on?
I know they are MSRs but still...
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This is good news, relatively speaking.
SMR technology is one of the most promising pieces of technological development in the nuclear power space.
Standardized factory production and completely sealed, so refueling is only at the factory, never on-site. Their also, small, but scalable depending on the needs of each site.
I'm not sure of the design this company is using, but I'm assuming they're leveraging a fail safe reactor, as in, it requires properly running systems to generate fission, but if those systems fail, the fission process stops. There are no secondary systems that have to kick in, it's a simple as either it's running properly, or it can't run it all.
As opposed to systems like Chernobyl, or 3 Mile Island, that required separate active safety systems to guard against catastrophic failures. But if those failed, they're backups failed, etc., well, meltdown.
This makes it sounds like Google is building their own nuclear plants
What could go wrong?
Emergency shutdown link hidden behind UI menu after UI menu and constantly changing locations weekly.
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Glad they're choosing nano-nukes and supplying their own juice.
So um. What happens when the white supremacists attacking FEMA and electrical grids starts attacking these nuclear reactors?
There are already existing nuclear reactors. Why would these new ones be any different in regards to their ability to be attacked?
Privately owned, smaller, more locations, more news coverage
I guess I expect the national energy commission to still regulate the plant to ensure safety standards are the same between public and private.
Had me excited there for the first half, ngl...
Thank goodness we can now get a little nuclear waste with our cat pics.