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Westinghouse sale signals arrival of a new nuclear age

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Indeed. But there are none, they are all in the design phase. Sadly we started on developing MSR's and SMR's 20 years too late. We need working, proven designs today, and we are not even close.

The actual practical issues with MSR's for example will have to be solved. Then once that has been done, you need to mass produce enough to have an impact.

So realistically we should see a couple of working MSR prototypes with a couple of years running by 2030. It's difficult to see significant numbers before 2040, and big numbers before 2050.

We need to keep as many of the existing reactors going until 2050 if we can. If we can drop a new MSR nuclear island into existing sites before then, good-o.

If renewables manage to replace fission by then, that's OK too.

What we don't need to do is burn more fossil fuel to make all the renewable infrastructure that is going to be needed. And that is what is currently happening.

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