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NRC issues first U.S. construction permit for a BWRX-300 small modular reactor

19 points • by papa-whisky • yesterday at 11:03 PM • 2 comments • view on HN

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CobaltFire • today at 3:30 AM

This is a 10th Generation Boiling Water Reactor. Here's some relevant links:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BWRX-300

https://www.gevernova.com/nuclear/carbon-free-power/bwrx-300...

Interesting point: no pumps; convection flow for 100% of the operational envelope.

testing22321 • today at 4:09 AM

Place your bets now.

Time until first power generated, and actual final total cost.

I’ll go 15 years and $10 Billion.