NuScale and its primary partner give up on its first installation.
    • Evotech@lemmy.worldEnglish
      9·
      1 year ago

      Are there even enough people who knows how to run these?

      I know a big issue in Europe is that you don’t actually have enough people educated on nuclear power to actually build and manage such a plant

        • vacuumflower@lemmy.sdf.orgEnglish
          2·
          1 year ago

          People obviously learn by doing real things, so competitive skilled labor won’t be more available than it is now. EDIT: … if they wait for it to be

          They just have to get projects through one by one, then with time there’ll be more competent people.

          But yes, some effort in schooling won’t hurt.

        • IchNichtenLichten@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
          11·
          1 year ago

          So which the economic scale are we thinking?

          I guess the one where investors pull their money out of new nuclear?

          I’m having difficultly following your analogy. I’m not sure the horses to ICE comparison is illuminating in relation to SMRs.