See the attached link for chart illustrating the expected commercialization and construction of such power plants (e.g. Small Modular Reactors, High Temperature Gas Cooled Reactors and Sodium Cooled Fast Reactors).
The Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) is also implementing Licensing procedures/requirements appropriate for those designs...see link below...
https://www.energy.gov/ne/articles/nrc-approves-new-approach-streamline-advanced-reactor-licensing-process
Basically, we're looking at the early 2030's for these reactors to come onto the grid...just want to set expectations for you...questions welcome.
btw, it is unlikely you'll see any U.S. utility order a current generation Light Water Reactor (PWR, BWR) in the meantime...best case is to keep as many of them operating as possible until the new designs are ready....will need to make do with Wind/Solar/Hydro and as little FF Powered plants as necessary to maintain economic progress.
Link: https://inldigitallibrary.inl.gov/sites/sti/sti/Sort_7242.pdf
They shall throw every possible roadblock in the way of the permitting of these plants.
vocal anti-nukes on the Left, but that is not at all where the DNC is on this issue, as evidenced by real funding for NP...including $$ for keeping Diablo Canyon, et al, operating.
Link: https://www.energy.gov/ne/articles/inflation-reduction-act-keeps-momentum-building-nuclear-power
The big problem is the NIMBY crowd - no one wants a nuclear power plant in their neighborhood, and members of Congress tend to oppose construction in their district.
All short-sighted. Nuclear power could solve a lot of our problems.
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……..so let’s get it done, right? Wrong, it is so far from happening, it is ridiculous.
The NIMBY argument doesn’t really hold water when many of the closings could have been upgraded or rebuilt on the very same site that the previous one existed.
I would actually withdraw my complaints about green energy if we had a realistic and viable alternative….which we do, but won’t use. That’s because the CC issue is not really about CC. It’s about money re-allocation and social re-engineering for the Left.
yet Baron insists on "Making Stuff Up" to fit his narrative...who are you going to trust?
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Sure, it’s mostly on the left.
But not only.
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You think red states could just put up their own nuclear power plants, eh? As if there isn't federal governance and policy and such?
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nuclear energy but if you think new units will be operational in 2035 or at all, you don’t understand the green movement crowd.
from the linked article...
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DOE is supporting the siting of the nation’s first 12-module power plant at Idaho National Laboratory. Operation is expected to begin in 2029.
“This is what successful private-public partnerships looks like,” said Dr. Rita Baranwal, the Assistant Secretary for Nuclear Energy. “DOE is proud to support the licensing and development of NuScale’s Power Module and other SMR technologies that have the potential to bring clean and reliable power to areas never thought possible by nuclear reactors in the U.S., and soon the world.”
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DOE’s support for the NuScale Power module can be traced back to the inception of its design at Oregon State University back in 2000.
Since then, DOE has provided more than $400 million to support the design, licensing and siting of the NuScale Power Module as well as initial design efforts for other domestic SMR designs.
Through the Carbon Free Power Project, DOE is working with Utah Associated Municipal Power Systems (UAMPS) and its members to showcase this first-of-a-kind technology.
What’s Next?
The NRC is preparing a rulemaking to certify the NuScale SMR design. Once certified, the SMR will join six other light water reactor designs cleared by the NRC. The regulator is also reviewing the nation’s first boiling water SMR design developed by GE-Hitachi.
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btw, the GE-Hitachi BWRX-300 design has already been approved by Canada for construction at an existing NP site (for their CANDU Reactor) in Ontario, so that design is likely to be licensed very quickly by our DOE...perhaps before 2030...
Link: https://www.energy.gov/ne/articles/nrc-approves-first-us-small-modular-reactor-design
Canyon and maintaining operation through 2030 or really necessarily beyond 2030.
Along that line, what does your ear to the ground, so to speak, tell you regarding other Light Water Reactor (PWR, BWR) in the U.S., that may be under-going decommissioning or planned decommissioning?
The "no-nukes," folks just don't seem to be able to grasp that their Prius can potentially take down the grid
U.S. Nuclear Power...it should also be noted that the DOE has authorized $6B for keeping existing plants operational, and Gov. Newsom is utilizing that funding for Diablo Canyon.
What more do you want?
Link: https://www.forbes.com/sites/kensilverstein/2022/08/22/the-inflation-reduction-act-will-spawn-the-growth-of-nuclear-energy/?sh=588fe70f4158
so they are being shorted in the inflation reduction act and my question goes unanswered.
I understand the small units but even so that is only 8 years of tax credits which begs the question of what credits are being received by wind and solar? The use of the phrase, "similar to the ones..." leaves too much information unspecified. '
return to a 'self-funding' mode and even extend their operational lives to 2045, or beyond...today's reactors are seeing 60 year licensed lifecycles and DC started operating May 7, 1985...
You are right to be concerned, but at least the Biden administration is doing all the right things to advance nuclear power for our future...not sure what else I can provide to convince doubters.
As far as I can tell decommissioning has started so someone has to draw up the scheme to halt that process, develop a scheme to renew the license and the restoration of commissioning activities and last but not least find a fabricator able to fit fabrication of new fuel assemblies into its production schedule without delaying other jobs already on order.
I would think that we are talking about dollars here that Newsom will have to fight with competing interest for dollars from Biden's bill as well as go to a legislature bound and determined to forge ahead with wind and solar and probably very reluctant to budget funding for standing up Diablo Canyon. Maybe the idea of a desalinization plant in conjunction with keeping Diablo Canyon running would help the cause as that would be much less expensive than the Sacramento reconveyance plan.
Time and money
Money and time