Leader in Nuclear Power?

[TaperPin]

With data centers drawing so much power I would have thought we’d be kicking new nuclear plants into high gear. Anyone have any idea why we’re not? China is taking the lead and they already have cheap power.

Locations of New Nuclear Power Reactor Applications | Nuclear Regulatory Commission

www.nrc.gov

 

[ChrisAU]

It’s easy to get a large group of people to agree that the idea of Nuclear is the answer.

It’s prohibitively difficult to get small groups of people to be ok with it in proximity to where they live, mostly because of ignorance.

I was in the industry for almost a decade.

 

[HuntHarder]

Permitting large scale Nuclear and building it can take 20-30 years. The answer going forward will most likely being SMR nuclear.

 

[thegrouse]

They are working on it, supposedly trying to speed it up. I heard the Energy Secretary on the All In Podcast last week

 

[WV Mountaineer]

Yeah I can’t believe people aren’t standing online go live next to the storage of waste nuclear fuel produces. Ignorant indeed.

 

[nm.otter]

Thorium, anyone?

The US and USSR bet on uranium/plutonium instead, because it makes good bombs.

I will believe commercial nuclear power is safe once the private insurance industry is willing to assume the risk -- minus the unlimited taxpayer guarantee we are currently saddled with.

 

[ChrisAU]

Yeah I can’t believe people aren’t standing online go live next to the storage of waste nuclear fuel produces. Ignorant indeed.

Exactly! God forbid we set aside an amount of land for a 100+ years of the nation’s nuclear waste storage equal to what’s needed for TWO energy deficient wind mills, ya know, those things you see thousands and thousands of out west.

 

[KurtR]

Yeah I can’t believe people aren’t standing online go live next to the storage of waste nuclear fuel produces. Ignorant indeed.

This kind of ignorance is pretty much the reason. Smr is the future but we want to stay living in the past

 

[mt terry d]

Data centers pose much more risk to Americans than nuke waste.

 

[def90]

With data centers drawing so much power I would have thought we’d be kicking new nuclear plants into high gear. Anyone have any idea why we’re not? China is taking the lead and they already have cheap power.

Locations of New Nuclear Power Reactor Applications | Nuclear Regulatory Commission

www.nrc.gov

We haven't built a new nuclear plant in close to 40 years other than s plant that went online in 2016 (I think) that construction had actually started on back in the 80's.

Too much litigation to work through to make it with the effort. The Trump admin has eased some rules though and Westinghouse has plans to build a few new plants with construction set to begin in 2030.