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Canadian provinces band together to develop nuclear reactor technology

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Re: Canadian provinces band together to develop nuclear reactor technology

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Post by TheChaplain »

pvaldes wrote: post #4

A nuclear reactor designed so small that can be placed in School Gyms. The phrase says all. It seems that shootings at schools are not longer exciting enough for the three men in the photo. They could also place dynamite under the basement and a big red button in the main entrance with a "do not push" sign. Adolescents love a defy.

It's a figure of speech to give the audience an idea of the size of the reactor, since a large majority of citizens have attended school.

Please try to be more generous in your interpretation instead of just throwing out the worst possible scenario thinkable.

Re: Canadian provinces band together to develop nuclear reactor technology

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Post by eigenspace »

pvaldes wrote: post #4

A nuclear reactor designed so small that can be placed in School Gyms. The phrase says all. It seems that shootings at schools are not longer exciting enough for the three men in the photo. They could also place dynamite under the basement and a big red button in the main entrance with a "do not push" sign. Adolescents love a defy.

I can’t tell if you’re trolling or not, but I’m just going to assume you’re being sincere.

Nothing about that quote suggests they want nuclear reactors in schools. They’re just trying to give a sense of size. Also, Canada has had very, very few school shootings.

Re: Canadian provinces band together to develop nuclear reactor technology

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Post by j9461701 »

I would much rather live near a nuclear power plant than a coal plant. I thoroughly support this, and hope they dismantle the big smoke-belching power plant in my city in favor of clean nukes.

My only concern is the scalability of this technology - mciro plants sound fine for powering far off native settlements in the far north. But for providing grid power to the urbanized south of the country, wouldn't it make more sense to build bigger plants in fewer numbers? Chernobyl, for example, was 4 reactors all hooked up to the same electrical generation equipment to save money (high quality turbines are expensive).

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Post by thawaway1837 »

StillBored wrote: post #3

A few years ago Toshiba was going to build a small reactor in Alaska. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Galena_Nuclear_Power_Plant But it got canceled, and for the life of me I can't understand why anyone thinks its better to truck in heavy fuel oil for generators vs having a small reactor buried in the ground for 30 years. I've been saying for a few years now that green energy only advocates are basically on the side of…

Only if the “green energy” people actually had that much power...

In reality there are 2 forces that have stopped nuclear. NIMBYism. And terrible economics.

But the green energy people are an easy punching bag for the nuclear advocates who are simply unwilling to face up to the reality of why nuclear keeps failing to take off.

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Post by Ididntdothis »

StillBored wrote: post #7
skybrian wrote: post #5

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It all depends on how much they end up costing to build compared to alternatives.

A huge part of that is all the lawsuits and "regulations" designed to keep new plants from being built. Regulations pushed for by the green energy constituency... I'm all for safety but if you read some of the regulation stories we would be banning CT scanners from hospitals..

Fukushima was a good reminder that these “regulations” exist for good reason.

Re: Canadian provinces band together to develop nuclear reactor technology

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Post by lemmox »

j9461701 wrote: post #13

I would much rather live near a nuclear power plant than a coal plant. I thoroughly support this, and hope they dismantle the big smoke-belching power plant in my city in favor of clean nukes. My only concern is the scalability of this technology - mciro plants sound fine for powering far off native settlements in the far north. But for providing grid power to the urbanized south of the country, wouldn't it make more…

Saskatchewan is a little more than 1M with cities smaller that 250k and New Brunswick is even smaller. Northern Ontario is also quite sparse. I think these are pretty good areas for the tech!

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Post by marcosdumay »

StillBored wrote: post #3

A few years ago Toshiba was going to build a small reactor in Alaska. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Galena_Nuclear_Power_Plant But it got canceled, and for the life of me I can't understand why anyone thinks its better to truck in heavy fuel oil for generators vs having a small reactor buried in the ground for 30 years. I've been saying for a few years now that green energy only advocates are basically on the side of…

Small nuclear plants are actually something that can possibly help (differently from the large ones). But I doubt anybody will get the costs down enough to make them viable, wind and solar are power horses. It's like creating a non-mainstream computer architecture at the 90's and early 00's, it won't improve fast enough to even match their speed.

About emissions, coal is responsible for a huge share of emissions on electricity generation. If you replace half of it with a 0 emissions source, and the other half a source 4 times more carbon efficient, it does go a long way to help. If we are luck, this will give us enough time to develop batteries, because that is very likely what will happen.

Re: Canadian provinces band together to develop nuclear reactor technology

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Post by cheez »

algaeontoast wrote: post #6

The saddest double-standard of all that’s driven by pure stupidity is the phenomenon of “environmental activists” who decry efforts to develop and deploy nuclear power. We could’ve been carbon neutral, but the green morons had to make a scene and screech “wind and solar” playing into their fictitious enemies hand (coal, natural gas etc.)

The same people who screamed about wind and solar also scream about $BYND and surprise (notice the "eating meat is bad for the environment" meme coming out recently), they are funded by similar pipelines.
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