Report: 80% of Existing Coal Plants Could House Nuclear Power at 35% the Cost

[Marlin]

Report: 80% of Existing Coal Plants Could House Nuclear Power at 35% the Cost of New Installations

https://www.indianaenvironmentalreporter.org/posts/report-80-of-existing-coal-plants-could-house-nuclear-power-at-35-the-cost-of-new-installations

[Rennhack]

Replacing a 1,000 MwE Coal burner for a 50 MwE SMR (or 12 of them) is hardly a drop in the bucket.

But hey, I like all the pro-nuke talk.  Its good for us old fashioned nuke plants too.

[Marlin]

Replacing a 1,000 MwE Coal burner for a 50 MwE SMR (or 12 of them) is hardly a drop in the bucket.

But hey, I like all the pro-nuke talk.  Its good for us old fashioned nuke plants too.

The number of coal sites would dwarf the number of currently running nuclear dinosaurs. The DOE has idendifie 157 retired coal plant sites and 237 currently running sites that can be converted. Not all SMRs are 50 megawatts, some are up to 300 a modular site with 12 of these would exceed a 1000 megawatt plant but I expect that with cocerns about infrastucture there would be only a few of these.

[Rennhack]

Lets get one up and running, and putting electricity on the grid.