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Rolls-Royce set for funding fillip to build nuclear power stations based on small modular reactor technology

Richard 12 Silver badge

Re: Survivor

We need the nukes now or we are utterly screwed.

Let's just look at gas:

As I write this the total UK electricity demand was 40GW. 50% of this supply is from burning gas. (54% from fossil fuels).

So we need to double non-fossil fuel production capacity, just to meet current demand.

Note that solar can't play any part in that because right now, it's dark, and the pumped storage is running...

Wind is providing under half its nameplate capacity, which is at the upper end of what it's ever done. Yesterday it generated roughly half as much.

We need to replace gas heating too. That's another 60GW extra electricity generation, give or take 10GW.

So we need to double the total current capacity, using something that works when it's dark and not windy.

So we need nuclear, purely to let us stop burning gas.

Then there's oil for transport...

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