For now market forces with increased overseas use could change that.....
shoulda, woulda, coulda, hasn't happened, and isn't it,...
what is it is natural gas rules,...
Yes, solar and wind would not exist without the government dole. Nuclear got it's start with a Navy built reactor as proof of concept on the public dime.
solar and wind and geothermal and nuclear and (insert your favorite emerging/legacy technology) cannot compete without subsidy,...
Poly (many) tics (blood sucking insect)... they bend to the wind and public opinion is bending toward nuclear.
only here at nukeworker.com,...
my grandchildren are coloring posters with nuke plants and mushroom clouds as part of a
grade school display!!!!!
please, look around ya, we ain't popular pal!!!!!
That has been the way of things but we have benefited from this, pure science and cutting edge practical science need this boost into the marketplace. Walk away designs would seem to be "good nuclear" so would plug and play once the kinks are worked out for factory floor SMRs.
hmmmmmm,...
CP-5 went critical in 1942, there were 15 commercial nukes either on the grid or under construction 20 years later,...
NuScale (as an example) has been in "business" for 11 years already as a company,...
not one reactor built yet, not one piece of heavy metal machined, not projected to be on the grid with anything before 2026,...
that would be 19 years,...
not to mention that government funding for the P of P started in 2000,...
that would be 26 years!!!!!
and these guys are using super computers versus slide rules!!!!
this isn't pure science and cutting edge practical science,...
this is PhDs bankrolling a company, golden parachutes and fat 401ks on unicorns and rainbows and DOE handouts pal,...
Nope not likely but the Wright brothers probably did not see us on the moon a short 60 years later.
too easy, the Wright Brothers were notorious skeptics of the "not invented here" variety,...
Perspective:
"An optimist will tell you the glass is half-full; the pessimist, half-empty; and the engineer will tell you the glass is twice the size it needs to be"
As a spectator in this I lean half full.
nah, you're a buggy whipper,...
you want to build the best and prettiest thing that scant few people want to buy,...
not that there's anything wrong with that,...