IchNichtenLichten@lemmy.world to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 11 months agoFirst planned small nuclear reactor plant in the US has been canceledarstechnica.comexternal-linkmessage-square47fedilinkarrow-up1280arrow-down15cross-posted to: [email protected][email protected][email protected][email protected]
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minus-squareEvotech@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up9·edit-211 months agoAre 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
minus-squarevacuumflower@lemmy.sdf.orglinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·edit-211 months agoPeople 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.
minus-squareIchNichtenLichten@lemmy.worldOPlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3arrow-down1·11 months agoYou didn’t mention the most important thing here though, economics.
minus-squareIchNichtenLichten@lemmy.worldOPlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1arrow-down1·11 months 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.
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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
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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.
You didn’t mention the most important thing here though, economics.
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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.