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Prestigious_Plum_451 t1_iu7whbc wrote

Reply to comment by Madholm in Poland picks U.S. offer for its first nuclear power plant -PM by SunfireGaren

> Either they aren’t safe, or are deemed too high a security risk.

Neither, also they don't need to be buried etc... assuming you are talking about small modular reactors, and their micro sized equivalents.

Right now they are just stuck in regulatory, and design limbo, and slowly moving forward. Why we are not seeing them out and about really just has to do with upfront costs, and regulatory issues where we have shit fine on paper, but someone needs to take the financial risk to fund initial deployments of the tech before anyone else jumps on board.

The first such in the US to be deployed to Eielson air force base in Alaska for testing, and energy production. https://www.safie.hq.af.mil/News/Article-Display/Article/3169035/request-for-proposal-released-for-eielson-air-force-base-micro-reactor-pilot-pr/

Kind of like with space rockets... how many years was it all about govt funding of all sorts of testing, development, and deployment of tech before private enterprise could follow suit on proven ideas?

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bingobangobenis t1_iu8ap10 wrote

god I really hope SMRs take off. They have the potential to really change things

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Prestigious_Plum_451 t1_iu8fbfd wrote

yah, at least in remote regions if nothing else. Import ungodly amounts of refined hydrocarbons and burn wood on top vs... SMR for the next some decades to prove the same power and then some which can then be replaced as needed with another module with the other one sent back for repurposing/recycling.

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bingobangobenis t1_iuao1oi wrote

also the potential to put them in ships, among other things. Imagine cargo/container ships that are greener

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Prestigious_Plum_451 t1_iuaoyun wrote

> potential to put them in ships

Assorted militaries have been successfully doing that for what 60-70 years now?

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