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re: If Texas's central grid only relied on solar & wind energy, would anyone have electricity?
Posted on 2/18/21 at 9:14 am to dewster
Posted on 2/18/21 at 9:14 am to dewster
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Nukes are the obvious answer, but the federal government changed their mind about storing the spent fuel rods. So now they are stored all over the country at nuclear plants.
Honestly one of the more minor issues. It’s more to do with licensing costs, margins, and the fact that Westinghouse is basically the only company that can build them and Westinghouse has been a poorly run company for a long time.
Canada has some cool stuff where they basically take a bunch of small naval reactors and make a farm to generate 700-800 MW. Those naval reactors are bulletproof (but unfortunately most are still made by Westinghouse.)
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Posted on 2/18/21 at 9:25 am to elprez00
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Honestly one of the more minor issues.
To operating a plant....yes. It's minor.
But you know how the media will react when one of these plants eventually gets a direct hit from a powerful tornado or quake and there's "concern" that the storage cylinders they use could leak. There would be a huge push to shut down those facilities.
Then again, it's not like we are rushing to bring new commercial reactors online in the US anyways.
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