Reply to post: Re: SMRs are expected to produce 300MWe per unit.

Rolls-Royce consortium shopping for factory sites to build mini-nuclear reactors

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Re: SMRs are expected to produce 300MWe per unit.

Why would there be any waste heat, since heat is precisely the point of the whole thing. Make heat, transfer it to a boiler, use the steam to turn a turbine to make electricity.

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