U.S. moves toward supplying Romania with a new style of nuclear plant
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Re: U.S. moves toward supplying Romania with a new style of nuclear plant
#2>The hope is to have it operating by the end of the decade.
Wow the building time even for this new style,modular nuclear plant is still takes that long time?
Just curious, why an American company builds a nuclear plant in a foreign country with US government 'subsidising' them, do not build it in US soils?
Re: U.S. moves toward supplying Romania with a new style of nuclear plant
#3Does anybody have some insight into the performance and safety of this type of design?
Romanian media is mostly silent on the topic. When it does happen to come up, the conversation seems to get stuck either at "the Americans are finally coming to save us" or "the globalist elites are experimenting on us". Neither position is helpful or informative.
Re: U.S. moves toward supplying Romania with a new style of nuclear plant
#4Does anybody have some insight into the performance and safety of this type of design? Romanian media is mostly silent on the topic. When it does happen to come up, the conversation seems to get stuck either at "the Americans are finally coming to save us" or "the globalist elites are experimenting on us". Neither position is helpful or informative.
No one can answer really because it is new. In theory it's perfect, like all nuclear reactors. In practice, who knows, like all nuclear reactors. It will come down to people's ability to manage every complex systems, to politics and economics over the next 50ish years and to luck...
Re: U.S. moves toward supplying Romania with a new style of nuclear plant
#5Why are they putting it in a region that has Earthquakes?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_earthquakes_in_Romania
Re: U.S. moves toward supplying Romania with a new style of nuclear plant
#6Why are they putting it in a region that has Earthquakes? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_earthquakes_in_Romania
Because it's where it's needed.
Because of geography Romania has off shore wind, rooftop solar and nuclear as low carbon energy sources, (Hydro has 30% of the market and new dams are v difficult due to environmental concerns)
All of these are needed, and small scale nuclear is a lot less susceptible to meltdown events due to loss of cooling. Earthquake resistant structures have been built for 50 years, so this is not a showstopper.
Re: U.S. moves toward supplying Romania with a new style of nuclear plant
#7Why are they putting it in a region that has Earthquakes? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_earthquakes_in_Romania
This is a problem that nuclear advocates have to address; power is needed in imperfect locations.
Re: U.S. moves toward supplying Romania with a new style of nuclear plant
#8The put-upon Romanian people will be saddled with super-expensive nukes.
For the rest of the decade, instead of building out low-cost renewables that get cheaper every year, they will pay for the nukes and for all the coal-fired power they are not displacing because they are just waiting for the nukes to get done.
In the end, they will get much less power for their money. More likely the project will be cancelled, uncompleted, as power is bought more cheaply from the European grid than it would cost to operate the nukes.
The Romanian people will get not a penny back after the cancellation.
Re: U.S. moves toward supplying Romania with a new style of nuclear plant
#9Why are they putting it in a region that has Earthquakes? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_earthquakes_in_Romania
Re: U.S. moves toward supplying Romania with a new style of nuclear plant
#10>The hope is to have it operating by the end of the decade. Wow the building time even for this new style,modular nuclear plant is still takes that long time? Just curious, why an American company builds a nuclear plant in a foreign country with US government 'subsidising' them, do not build it in US soils?
The 'advertise' with 3-5 year per SMR, but it seems that's not reality. Otherwise, we would be plonking down a lot more more of them in parallel I would think.