- Small modular reactors found to exacerbate challenges of highly radioactive nuclear waste, increase the volume in need of management and disposal by a factor of up to 30 compared to existing gigawatt-scale light water reactors https://www.pnas.org/doi/full/10.1073/pnas.2111833119 5 comments science
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- Small reactors don’t add up as a viable energy source https://cosmosmagazine.com/science/engineering/small-reactors-dont-add-up/ 325 comments
- The First Small Modular Nuclear Reactor Was Just Approved by US Regulators https://singularityhub.com/2022/08/05/the-first-small-modular-nuclear-reactor-design-was-just-approved-by-us-regulators/ 302 comments
- ‘Unproven’ small nuclear reactors would raise Australia’s energy costs and delay renewable uptake, report says | Energy | The Guardian https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2022/oct/05/unproven-small-nuclear-reactors-would-raise-energy-costs-and-delay-renewable-uptake-report-says 177 comments
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