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1. Ars Technica (arstechnica@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 09-Nov-2023 08:22:35 JST Ars Technica

   First planned small nuclear reactor plant in the US has been canceled

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

   https://arstechnica.com/science/2023/11/first-planned-small-nuclear-reactor-plant-in-the-us-has-been-canceled/?utm_brand=arstechnica&utm_social-type=owned&utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social

   • tdietterich (tdietterich@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 09-Nov-2023 08:36:04 JST tdietterich

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     @arstechnica Interesting. Perhaps large scale batteries plus solar/wind is cheaper and equally dispatchable?

   • NovemberMan (novemberman@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 09-Nov-2023 09:22:33 JST NovemberMan

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     @arstechnica 🙄

   • Virtue signal 💉💉💉🇺🇸 🇺🇦 (tasket@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 09-Nov-2023 09:29:39 JST Virtue signal 💉💉💉🇺🇸 🇺🇦

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     @arstechnica

     As it should. SMRs will not bring costs down, and their backers are still in a cult of denial about energy storage (that its absolutely necessary whether renewables or nuclear dominate).

     Nuclear never approached anything like "too cheap to meter". But it was a handy slogan to justify building nuclear weapons infra. Then when Soviet Union collapsed – when the motivation became solely economic – it only took a couple years for reactor starts to take a permanent nosedive.

   • A (moodre@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 09-Nov-2023 11:15:06 JST A

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     @arstechnica meanwhile...in Australia - https://www.abc.net.au/news/2023-07-07/peter-dutton-david-littleproud-coalition-nuclear-reactors/102574782?utm_source=abc_news_app&utm_medium=content_shared&utm_campaign=abc_news_app&utm_content=other