Nuclear power has been around for decades but it's never achieved the global dominance of the energy sector that its creators envisioned. Now, as the world moves away from fossil fuels, the nuclear debate is firmly back in focus and Small Modular Reactors are being touted as the only zero carbon baseload solution to our climate crisis. Rolls Royce say they'll have their design operational within ten years. Can they do it, and do we want it?
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Nuclear Fusion
https://youtu.be/OlGzt9ur1bY
Other Research
Rolls Royce
https://www.rolls-royce.com/innovation/small-modular-reactors.aspx#/
https://www.rolls-royce.com/~/media/Files/R/Rolls-Royce/documents/customers/nuclear/smr-brochure-july-2017.pdf
BBC Article
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-59212983
Michael Barnard Article in Clean Technica
https://cleantechnica.com/2021/05/03/small-modular-nuclear-reactors-are-mostly-bad-policy/
Lazard LCOE Charts
https://www.lazard.com/media/451086/lazards-levelized-cost-of-energy-version-130-vf.pdf
Our World in Data - Nuclear Safety
https://ourworldindata.org/nuclear-energy
What is SMR?
https://www.twi-global.com/technical-knowledge/faqs/small-modular-reactor
IAEA - Nuclear Waste
https://www.iaea.org/newscenter/news/iaea-conference-on-sustainable-solutions-in-radioactive-waste-management-opens