Re: unlike your typical UK green energy project
Could you hear me shouting at the radio too…?
I know people who were looking at something like this about 10 years back and the key arguments were, yeah, small reactor less efficient than big, but
1) small reactor much easier to build and manage
2) if you 20 50MW reactors it’s easy to take one off line each month for maintenance rather than losing 500MW for a year or more
As to the technology being unproven, I just assumed RR would be delivering something based on the submarine reactors they’ve been building since about 1966
I say this as someone who lives about 5km from several nuclear reactors and 7km from a recently decommissioned coal plant - I know which worried me more!
Biting the hand that feeds IT
