Forbidden licorice.

Great overview, but I have two notes:

1. A mention is made of the proliferation risks due to purified plutonium. But no mention is made of the difference between weaponsgrade Pu-239 and useless Pu-240. Pu-240 has the annoying characteristic that it can ‘spontaneously’ fission, which of course for is highly undesirable in warheads. These are mixed up and hard to separate. This simple fact makes proliferation risks at best a theoretical scenario.
2. Vitrification of the fission products is explained well, but is still accompanied with the obligatory “hundreds of thousands of years” comment. This is incorrect. After 300 years, these fission products are no longer radiotoxic.

Several countries, and I guess Italy is among them, have decommissioning regulation where the old unit first has to ‘cool off’ for a few decades before the building can be torn down.

So, to answer of whether it is this or that, I answer: yes.

Did not expect this to go to any other company but a Russian one tbh.

Really impressive that their design can be transported as a 200 MWe module. That truly brings the SMR promise closer!

Well, he knows about this community now! 🙂

“Like, you have no idea what we’re talking about, but you’re very opinionated about it.”

Thought that was an apt summary of your posts on Kyle.

Great question. This might actually play a role here. Nuclear energy has the lowest land impact of any energy source. They better involve the local population in this though.

Adding pictures seems to work wonky: I now have to add them several times as they appear to remove themselves when writing out the post.

Yay, thanks!