SMRs sounds good, but the electricity cost/kWh would be at least 2 times gas fired CCGT plants.
Such plants are up to 60% efficient, have very low CO2/kWh.
It would take at least 5 to 8 years to build SMRs at a rate of 50 units per year
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A 500 MW (2 units at 250 MW each) CCGT power plant can be built in two years, at a turnkey cost of $2000/kW.
New York State has finally agreed to allow the building of the gas pipeline from Pennsylvania to New England.
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At present, no country is set up to produce, say 50 SMRs per year, at 200 MW each. China, Russia and the US, with large command/control economies, would be the only countries able set up the required A-to-Z infrastructures.
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It would require:
Increased uranium mining,
Processing the uranium into fuel bundles,
Constructing factories to produce components and subassemblies,
Constructing factories for assembling the final units
Shipping the assembled unis to the site, likely by ship or barge,
Selection and preparation of the site,
Adding the remaining balance of plant systems,
Plant test operation of each system,
Connecting the plant to the grid, with switchyard,
Test operation of the entire plant,
Commissioning the plant to produce electricity at design output
AI systems require lots of steady electricity
Each major AI system should be required to have its own power plant
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By definition, weather-dependent, variable/intermittent, grid-disturbing, heavily subsidized, expensive wind and solar systems do not qualify.
SMALL MODULAR REACTORS
by Willem Post
18 hours ago
SMALL MODULAR REACTORS
https://www.windtaskforce.org/profiles/blogs/small-modular-reactors
By Willem Post
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SMRs sounds good, but the electricity cost/kWh would be at least 2 times gas fired CCGT plants.
Such plants are up to 60% efficient, have very low CO2/kWh.
It would take at least 5 to 8 years to build SMRs at a rate of 50 units per year
.
A 500 MW (2 units at 250 MW each) CCGT power plant can be built in two years, at a turnkey cost of $2000/kW.
New York State has finally agreed to allow the building of the gas pipeline from Pennsylvania to New England.
.
At present, no country is set up to produce, say 50 SMRs per year, at 200 MW each. China, Russia and the US, with large command/control economies, would be the only countries able set up the required A-to-Z infrastructures.
.
It would require:
Increased uranium mining,
Processing the uranium into fuel bundles,
Constructing factories to produce components and subassemblies,
Constructing factories for assembling the final units
Shipping the assembled unis to the site, likely by ship or barge,
Selection and preparation of the site,
Adding the remaining balance of plant systems,
Plant test operation of each system,
Connecting the plant to the grid, with switchyard,
Test operation of the entire plant,
Commissioning the plant to produce electricity at design output
AI systems require lots of steady electricity
Each major AI system should be required to have its own power plant
.
By definition, weather-dependent, variable/intermittent, grid-disturbing, heavily subsidized, expensive wind and solar systems do not qualify.
https://www.windtaskforce.org/profiles/blogs/high-cost-kwh-of-w-s-systems-foisted-onto-a-brainwashed-public-1