Will the small modular nuclear reactor community be able to find an optimized point on the physics vs modularity curve? I don't think so.
), probably the leading global academic in megaproject failures and successes, someone who has consulted to over 100 projects costing more than a billion USD, was the optimization of modularity in scaling. The discussion point was about small modular nuclear reactors vs wind and solar energy.
The combination of circumstances existed briefly in the US, France, and South Korea before withering into dust.
Small modular reactors are the nuclear industry’s next big hope, because no government can gain a mandate to build dozens of GW-scale reactors any more.
Well, thermal generation like coal or nuclear likes big boilers. It’s the inverse of liquid hydrogen storage having to be as close to balls and as big as possible, thermal efficiency is better in big globes because it minimizes surface area while maximizing volume. Want thermal efficiency? Scale up. Starting with wind energy, wind turbines have been getting bigger, a lot bigger, with the passing of time. The Innwind project spent a long time and a lot of brain power seeing how they could overcome the engineering difficulties in scaling wind turbines to 2o MW each. Right now, onshore turbines are a lot smaller than that, averaging about 2.
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