NuScale and its primary partner give up on its first installation.

First planned small nuclear reactor plant in the US has been canceled::NuScale and its primary partner give up on its first installation.

  • Kusimulkku@lemm.eeEnglish
    78·
    1 year ago

    Does solar power use some rare earth minerals and stuff like that? They own those, but you probably need them for nuclear and others

        • Dizzy Devil Ducky@lemm.eeEnglish
          7·
          1 year ago

          I mean, a teenage boy scout once built something like an amateur reactor in a shed in his parents backyard shed, so I see nothing wrong with a tractor on the roof or in a basement.

      • Cethin@lemmy.zipEnglish
        13·
        1 year ago

        Currently, no. With enough investments in nuclear and less fear mongering, it’s possible that’s be an option. Small scale nuclear reactors can exist and can be safe, and the amount of nuclear material they’d need is fairly small.

      • viking@infosec.pubEnglish
        4·
        1 year ago

        There’s not necessarily a need for batteries. I’m generating energy and use it up directly, and inject the overage back into the grid against a compensation, and then at night or during times of heavy cloud coverage, I draw power from the grid pretty much on par with the money I received. So far it’s a zero sum game or slightly profitable.

        • afraid_of_zombies@lemmy.worldEnglish
          59·
          1 year ago

          Ok cool. So you outsourced the battery needs to someone else. Good job. Hey I figured out how to fix global warming, all we need to do is move all the stuff that causes it to different countries.

          Didn’t address the controls I noticed.