alt Hacker News> Larger reactors are needed.
Genuine question: Why? Why not many smaller reactors? Small modular reactors seem pretty neat.
Is there an efficiency loss/total cost difference with smaller reactors?
> Larger reactors are needed.
Genuine question: Why? Why not many smaller reactors? Small modular reactors seem pretty neat.
Is there an efficiency loss/total cost difference with smaller reactors?
Like most industrial sites, large reactors are much more economical than small ones. This is why nobody has built SMRs since the 1950s.