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21 sats \ 0 replies \ @ek 5 Dec 2023 freebie
Build smaller reactors (SMRs), not bigger! lol
Trying to build the biggest power plant just increases cost, time, estimation, single point of failures ... I don't actually know why you would want to have one big power plant if you could build X power plants with the same output in sum. Is there any advantage to building bigger plants? Possibly because the time to build a power plant does not scale with the output of the plant? So building two smaller ones would take more time than one big power plant?
edit: oh this is about fusion reactors not fission, and also an experimental one:
nevermind, should have just read the article first before commenting on the headline, lol
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0 sats \ 0 replies \ @thursday 5 Dec 2023
This is such a great milestone. With how insignificant the funding for fusion reactors has been, it's kind of incredible we even at this stage.
ITER is not that far off. Very exciting times.
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