ok46reddit t1_iuftkz3 wrote on October 31, 2022 at 12:14 AM

Reply to comment by PlayingTheWrongGame in Poland chooses US to build its first nuclear power plant by Vegeta9001

>Approved commercial reactors a company can buy,

There are several under construction in China and Russia. One operational in Russia for now. KAERI has one licensed in SK, and there are five more designs being evaluated for licensing in the US and Russia. And I am pretty sure we will see these designs in operation before this one in Poland can be brought online.

There are dozens of additional designs in the pipeline.

PlayingTheWrongGame t1_iufzq7f wrote on October 31, 2022 at 1:01 AM

> There are several under construction in China and Russia.

Tech demonstrators are not the same as cost-competitive commercial products.

ok46reddit t1_iui29nd wrote on October 31, 2022 at 2:26 PM

By that standard every single cold-war style nuke generation complex is a 'tech demonstrator' since they are all pretty much subsidized one-offs.

PlayingTheWrongGame t1_iujd3al wrote on October 31, 2022 at 7:41 PM

It’s almost like this method of generating electricity inherently scales poorly.

ok46reddit t1_iujuxtu wrote on October 31, 2022 at 9:45 PM

I don't know where you are getting that idea. Particularly with distributed generation becoming more common.