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.

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.

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.

Yeah, that seems a sloppy editorial mistake somewhere. Not sure if that’s WNN or they missed it when taking it over.

The original press release speaks of “$10,250,000 million” 🤦‍♂️ Not a great look.

https://nanonuclearenergy.com/nano-nuclear-energy-announces-pricing-of-initial-public-offering/

“Extensions can be granted once only and limited to a maximum of 20 years”

So, only a 60 year maximum run? That seems like a waste and unnecessary legal barrier. Just keep them running as long as they comply with safety requirements.

79 years! On towards the first centennial plant. True clean energy cathedrals 😎

“At this point, there are no indications of damage to critical nuclear safety or security systems at the site.”

Thanks for the update. The rest of the piece is diplomatic fluff.

They’re run by different operators. In some cases they probably will be, I’m thinking public utilities. In other cases they add to the profit margin.

If you think the latter should change, organise so these utility companies serve the public again.

I have no idea what you’re talking about. Greed? They just buying a piece of land that’s going to be used.

This had to be done.

“Longview’s plan is for laser fusion power plants, with capacity of up to 1600 MW”

I wouldn’t have posted this article, but to chuckle at this bullshit. Let’s first get you out of the early prototype phase, son.

Note also how they conveniently forget to mention it took 300 MJ to power up those lasers so they could release 2 MJ, and only do this once. For this approach to work, you need to do this many times a second.

Ligt eraan hoeveel vaart we willen maken. Als we ze in serie bouwen en in 2027 beginnen bijvoorbeeld, met elk jaar de start van een nieuwe, dan zou je eind jaren dertig klaar kunnen zijn.

De beste tijd om een kerncentrale te bouwen was twintig jaar geleden. De op een na beste is nu 🤷‍♂️

You might want to look into India’s three stage nuclear energy program, which is a long term vision that enables them to use their vast thorium reserves. This prototype fast breeder reactor is the start of their second stage of that plan.

LCOE as defined as “total cost divided by total energy” give an indication. The total costs for building & financing (which itself is 2/3 of this bracket!) is $31 billion for both units. The design life is 60 years, but is likely to exceed that to at least 80. Let’s put OPEX at $250M annually per unit.

With these numbers we get to an LCOE of around $53 per MWh. Then again, LCOE is a financing metric which is often used for a shorter period, so in practice it’ll cost more in the first 30 years and be ‘free’ after that. LCOE isn’t a great metric if you want to look at what you’re going to pay for your power bill.

So, lessening our dependency on Russia and making the environmental footprint smaller in the process. Double win!

Mind that a 30% reduction comes on top of the already extremely low EDF lifecycle impact of just 3.7 grams of CO2eq per kWh. For comparison, globally nuclear energy stands lowest at 6.4 grams(figure 1, page 8).

I say, go for it! 😀

TerraPower has an interesting concept with the Natrium reactor, in that they combine it with heat storage in salt which is one of those things where one wonders “why didn’t I think of that?”. They had some false starts with designs in the past, but this seems a slam dunk as the technology is mostly there already, with decades of operational experience in sodium fast reactors across the globe.

Do report back if you reach out to them. Really interested in how it goes 🙂