Thread 514994826

US BUILDING HISTORIC NUCLEAR PLANT TO POWER OVER 4 MILLION HOMES

https://interestingengineering.com/energy/us-to-build-6gw-nuclear-plant

>>514994826 (OP)
It's going to fail and kill people.

>>514994893
In your dreams

Doubt

>>514994893
ok chang

>>514994893
>It's going to fail and kill people.
FPNI

Stop tickling the dragons tail!

Great idea!
What could go wrong?

>>514994826 (OP)
>$900 million spent
> Sorry we had to cancel the project due to unforeseen costs. No refunds

>>514994826 (OP)
>nuscale
Homosexual name. Also, why is it such a big deal in a country with 350 mil people?

>>514994826 (OP)
Call me when we actually do start building it instead of wanting to build it.

>>514995351
nuclears literally the best option. its not the 1950s or soviet union anymore. its safe as fuck.

>>514994893
fuck off with that shit, I'm tired of hearing it. Pure hysterical fearmongering garbage preventing clean energy for so long. They can bolster safety with AI monitors / safeguards too

>>514994826 (OP)
Good thing that nuclear doesn't require government subsidies and is entirely run by private investments unlike those woke renewables, am I right guys?

>>514994826 (OP)
>4 million homes
>or one ai chatbot
can't wait to make funny pepes as poor people lose all their water pressure and have roving black outs hahahahaha

>>514994826 (OP)
>6000 Megawatt!!!
That for sounds alot more than 6 Gigawatt! Big numbers confuse me.

>>514994826 (OP)
Nuke shit isn't real.

I just read an article in the economist that ai llm are being built at such a rate that the us will be unable to power them by 2028. This is if the demand stays the same and we keep making them. They apparently use a metric fuck ton of energy and they have also socialized the costs to taxpayers. If you have noticed your power bill go up in the Midwest, LLMs are the main reason

>>514994893
ROLLING

>>514994893
safer than all other forms of power plants.
>>514994826 (OP)
LETS FUCKING GOOO BABY WOOO.
Finally some good news.

>>514994826 (OP)
EXCEPT IT WONT REALLY BE FOR HOMES IT WILL BE FOR DATA CENTERS AND YOUR ENERGY BILL IS GOING TO TRIPLE ANYWAY

>>514994893
Nah it will just never be finished like all new nuclear plants in the West.

>>514994826 (OP)
Cue the screeching meltdown from the green energy Jewish racket.

>>514995361
>$900 million for a nuclear power plant
More like $10-50 billion

>>514995361
These will be clusters of small modular reactors, not one big reactor.
So they can build it up gradually and stop if costs get out of hand or reactors aren't being delivered.

>>514994893
FPBP
/thread

>>514995734
It's all so tiresome and gross.
It will be built & maintained by the lowest bidder.
And when it goes critical & kills a bunch of civilians, the tech bros better be held accountable.
Of course we could prevent all of that if they made the tech bros accountable NOW.
They are letting them run amuck & ruin so much.
Send them back to their home Countries please. They are raping America & everyone just laughs

>>514994826 (OP)
I Dub The’ Gigga-Jewel !

>>514995592
Yea?
Are you the same German I argued with last year about nuclear energy not receiving shit beyond tax credits?

>>514995592
Coal and natural gas plants get massive amounts of subsidies as well.
Just an energy industry thing I guess.

>>514994826 (OP)
i held their stock back in 2023 and sold. fucking SEETHING right now but my only consilation is that current SMRs are too wasteful.

>>514995691
>LLMs are the main reason
Someone needs to do a deep dive into this and push it to the public. Because this is 100% true and they are getting away with it because barely anyone knows about it.

>>514994826 (OP)
>>514995933
We are nuclear engineers saar!

>>514994826 (OP)
>nuscale
Um.
I am now concerned. Thanks for the alert, OP.

>>514996005
You did the right thing, there is a zero percent chance this project is finished.

>>514996056
funnily enough their previous project also got cancelled too, outside of nitche applications (current) SMRs are memeshit and are only being invested into because of the LLM scam.

I've never seen /pol/ so cynical before, and that's saying something.
You freaks masturbate to the thought of being conscripted every other thread despite the improbability of it but you fall into depression when a future infrastructure plan is announced?

>>514994893
I love nuclear power
Emotion-driven hippies may continue seething

>>514996005
Investing in individual nuclear companies is pretty risky because one big contract can make or break them.
But nuclear is definitely the future that's why I invest in uranium/nuclear tech ETF's instead.

>>514994826 (OP)
I'll believe it when I see it.

>>514996032
funnily enough it's mainly progressives doing that.
>>514996207
see my previous post, their previous project got cancelled before this, the only reason why they're getting money again is from desperate tech giants.
>>514996216
same, i want it to work but tiny SMRs are inefficient as hell, if the tech was scaled up it would be perfect.
>>514996357
I'll probably do that tbqh

>>514996216
This. Nuclear is the only way we are going to be able to advance. I really do think it's communists who are trying to hold us back so China can take over everything they haven't already.

>>514994826 (OP)
It will only take 20 years to complete.

>>514994826 (OP)
>This collaboration is projected to deliver approximately 5.5 GW of electricity, an output sufficient to power an estimated 4.5 million homes or 60 new large-scale data centers.
In other words, this will be used to power 60 data centers (not millions of homes)

>>514994893
under any other administration I would laugh at you but under this fat retarded orange faggot, there might unironically be a fucking israeli killswitch on this damn thing.

>>514994826 (OP)
Read the article
>It involves the construction of six new nuclear plants across TVA’s seven-state service region.
About time, this is probably one of the few good things we're getting from the LLM bubble.
>Each of these new facilities will be powered by 12 individual NuScale Power Modules (NPM).
Why not build one big reactor? Pretty sure it would be more efficient.
>>514996547
Nah SMRs are fully contained, you don't need much space for them.

>>514996547
To complete, yes.
But we're taking 72 small reactors so the first few should go online in just a few years that's the beauty of SMR's.

>>514994893
I've got a Nuscale lawnmower, runs pretty good

>>514996836
>>514996837
You still need the construction of a full containment building and turbine system. This isn't gonna take less than 5 years to complete a single unit and since America lacks the construction infrastructure to build them all at once you're probably only building 2-4 at a time. This is literally never going to be finished.

>>514996836
>Why not build one big reactor? Pretty sure it would be more efficient.
Several reasons but mostly to reduce construction time.

Long construction time is the biggest problem with nuclear plants because it takes a very long time until investors get their money back and most investors want more short term profits not look 30 or 40 years into the future.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cbeJIwF1pVY

>>514994826 (OP)
Sounds like they need a data center to drop that down to 12 homes being powered with no water. Kek.

Megawatt?

>>514994826 (OP)
cool, can my state participate and get off this retarded outdated grid already

>>514996837
surely thats how it will go.

>>514994893
No, but Democrats will get elected and shut it down before it's completed. Long term infrastructure projects can't be built in a democratic system.

>>514995691
>>514996032
I work for a company that designs and manages construction of data centers. They do use a ton of electricity. The place is essentially a giant server farm with specialized HVAC and fire systems. Once they’re built they don’t really employ that many people. They’re just giant buildings to house computational power. But the cooling, servers, etc. take a lot of energy. For example in Ireland, which has a lot of data centers, their energy usage has overtaken all urban housing combined.

>>514994826 (OP)
These modular power plants is exactly what we would be building here if it wasn't for our retarded government.

>>515002415
>but Democrats will get elected
lol, lmao even

>>514996207
>masturbate to being conscripted
Weird projection glownigger

>>514994893
That would be impressive since modern nuclear plants don't meltdown.

>>514995560
>They can bolster safety with AI monitors
sirs I will build you best AI for shiva reactor program of best india quality

>>514995376
>Homosexual name. Also, why is it such a big deal in a country with 350 mil people?
Because it's the first radically new type of reactor after the USA started building them back in the 70s. Small modular reactors give operators a much more flexible option with reactors and locations.
The newest NPP, Vogtle was a conventional 1GWe output. Each NuScale reactors is 77MWe.

>>514994826 (OP)
How does electricity even work lol?

>>515005060
Look man, those cunts are having a hard time of it but NEVER underestimate your fucking enemy
"Hope for the best, expect the worst"

>>514996723
xai colossus alone uses ~250MW and colossus2 is going to be >1GW. Nearly 1/6-1/5 of this entire proposed nuclear buildout would just power grok's training.

>>514995592
>Good thing that nuclear doesn't require government subsidies
Gov regulations are the main reason why nuclear tech has been neglected for 50+ years.
IIRC it's minimum 10 years and $100 million to get a new reactor design approved, and that's not including building and deploying it.

>>514994826 (OP)

>money laundering scheme like the high speed rail

>>514995133
>do americans really build their nuclear power plants out of cardboard

>>514994826 (OP)
It wont happen. All the money will go into jewish pockets

>>514994893
>It's going to fail and kill people.
are you really this fucking retarded? there's no way, right?

>>514994893
>duuuuuuh It's going to fail and kill people.
>doesn't say how
>doesn't know why
>just runs his fucking mouth
>uneducated flat earth homosexual on pol
>can't stop making shit up
kill yourself

>>514995204
Kek good one, also:
>six gorillion niggawatt
>NuMale
>>514995351
Probably nothing unless it somehow involves DEI and shitskins, nuclear is pretty based.

>>514994826 (OP)
yeah right, that shit is for AI datacenters and thats assuming it actually gets built

>>515005832
I mean it would probably make it less likely to have a colossal fuckup like chernobyl, fukushima or (almost) three mile island if it assisted and gave advice. You are never guaranteed not to get a retard in charge but with AI input even retarded people can avoid making huge mistakes