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Bill Gates-backed nuclear contender Terra Power aims to build dozens of UK reactors
  • If it is that easy, show me one example where any of those technologies have been deployed at a scale required for even a day usage of an entire nation?

    Truth is, its hard to do. We will get there, but not sufficiently fast for where we need, hence the continuing need for nuclear.

  • Bill Gates-backed nuclear contender Terra Power aims to build dozens of UK reactors
  • We know historic nuclear is expensive. Cost is the entire point of SMRs. Let's not use reductionist logic to make a complex problem seem simple. It is complicated and whether SMRs succeed is still to be determined but there is good logic in the aims they have set out and I hope they succeed.

    As for renewable, it would be wonderful if we could store energy to overcome the ebs and flows of power they currently produce, but I am not aware of any technology currently allowing this to sufficient costs and practicalities. This is where nuclear may be required

    It doesn't matter if you produce 400% the required energy in a year with renewables if we have to go without even a fraction of the time.

  • Bill Gates-backed nuclear contender Terra Power aims to build dozens of UK reactors
  • The technology of modern reactors ,like the one in the article, is a greater advancement from early reactors that the 1900th century electric car to a modern one.

    The materials, manufacturing techniques, fuels, controls, and components are only achievable due to modern advancements.

    The latest reactors will be cheaper, more efficient, and safer. They are a necessary stopgap to overcome the transient nature of renewable energy in the UK and an important piece in ensuring energy availability and detachment from from fossil fuels.

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