NuScale Power’s Post

What follows is a link to a brief video giving context to the buzz around small modular reactors and the pending demand for energy. https://lnkd.in/g9yD683J

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https://lnkd.in/eKMgEzvH "US-based Last Energy is a spin-off of the Energy Impact Center, a research institute devoted to accelerating the clean energy transition through innovation. Its reactor technology is based on a pressurised water reactor with a capacity of 20 MWe or 80 MWt. Power plant modules would be built off-site and assembled in modules."

The paradigm of big baseline builds is shifting to modular builds. I’m bullish on this modular approach for at least 3 reasons: 1) loss of institutional knowledge and skill sets. Skilled outage techs and engineers are in short supply and will need to be on and off a job ASAP in the new nuclear paradigm, 2) the funding model for new builds cannot support big baseline projects anymore. SCANA was relatively healthy and VC Summer bankrupted it. There aren’t more than two, maybe three, utilities in North America that can sustain the financial commitment for a baseline build, 3) the market profile for new nukes is no longer big, regional gencos powering homes, in fact it may be shifting away from that altogether. AI computing, corporate data centers, and an increase in semiconductor manufacturing all require continuous, dedicated, reliable, and most of all, the cleanest power (wave form, not energy source) possible. That comes better from localized sources, not remote baseline generating plants. IMHO, this adds up to modular design, modular licensing, modular funding, modular construction, modular/incremental capacity expansion, and modular outage management.

This research project is very interesting. I think as of now the world is perfecting the technology for converting hydrogen to electricity by using fuel cells to run vehicles alongwith finding ways to generate, transport, store and dispense hydrogen safely, but before we perfect these technologies the research for reversing the process to generate hydrogen using electricity and fuel cell at this stage is surprising. I think DOE should fund for perfecting the technology for converting hydrogen to electricity using fuel cell including transportation, storage and dispensing hydrogen safely before we start intensive research for reversible process.

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