First contracts for next generation of nuclear power to be awarded next summer

The next stage of the process will see companies able to bid for Government contracts with successful bids from the six going to contract award stage next summer.

Next summer is soon

  • Diplomjodler@feddit.de
    101·
    1 year ago

    Contracts being awarded means that they can start planning construction. Building a pilot plant will still take several years, if everything goes very well. Then you need to commission and test the new system. That again will take a number of years in the best of circumstances. Then, if everything goes very well, you can start thinking about getting series production going. Which has never been done before for a technology like this so it’s again going to take a long time. You’re looking at several decades in the best case scenario for those things to make any kind of meaningful impact on world energy generation. Which is why anybody touting SMRs as a solution to climate change is either clueless, delusional or lying.

        • lntl@lemmy.mlOP
          12·
          1 year ago

          i mean you can say that, but they’re literally being built everywhere

          • Diplomjodler@feddit.de
            31·
            1 year ago

            No they’re not. There are a few projects in the early planning stages. As far as I know, none of them has even broken ground yet.

              • Diplomjodler@feddit.de
                2·
                1 year ago

                This article is specifically about SMRs, which I was talking about. The Chinese building more white elephants doesn’t make those any more real.

                • lntl@lemmy.mlOP
                  11·
                  1 year ago

                  the future has already begun and it will not include nukes. At least not on earth.

                  it clearly will include nukes…

        • PowerCrazy@lemmy.ml
          37·
          1 year ago

          That’s weird. Considering commercial scale nuclear power plants exist all over earth right now. And if the “future has already begun,” then we are living in that future, and it does include “nukes” providing clean safe power to probably a billion people on earth. Too bad the fossil fuel industry knows that nuclear reactors are the only threat to their existence and has pumped anti-nuclear propaganda to the mainstream envrionmental movement for the past 50 years.

          Wake up, let’s save our future.

          • Diplomjodler@feddit.de
            21·
            1 year ago

            Most of the current nukes are old and nearing their end of life. The few ones that were built recently all wildly ran over schedule and budget. Saying that anti-nuclear sentiment is pushed by the fossil industry is breathtakingly ass-backwards. It’s exactly the fossil lobby that has been pushing nukes lately as a smokescreen to delay the adoption of renewables.

            • PowerCrazy@lemmy.ml
              14·
              1 year ago

              Source needed. Show me the receipts of the fossil fuel industry secretly funding nuclear power.