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