This Nuclear Plant is Built in 3 Months

3 month of building but 13 years of lawsuits and politics.

I'm pro nuclear, but this is a puff piece with no critical analysis or questioning around waste management, safety, or cost. Just an advertisement for the company with hand-wavy "this will work, trust me" explanations for the important questions.

I was going to say that one of the big problems with big businesses constructing their own power plants is that it reduces the economies of scale that large utilities provide to customers, but then he pointed out that the whole problem is that large utilities aren't reliable anymore. So yeah, utilities will simply pass higher costs onto individuals.

This is actually the first time someone explained to me why modular reactors make sense

Using nuclear to power industry is an amazing concept. However, one can't help but feel skeptical about this particular company. Most SMRs are given timelines as short as 2030. This includes already licensed ones, like GE-Hitachi, NuScale, etc, who spent years going through the regulatory process. LastEnergy, despite using "proven and well-known" technology, is not approved by any regulator. In fact, there is no data available on their final design, nor any regulatory process ongoing. And yet, they claim that they can deploy one as soon as 2025. It is nice to challenge the status-quo - current regulatory processes do take an awful long-time, especially for designs like this, which have a very conservative design. However, heavily marketing that you can deploy this reactor in 2 years, when your competitors need decades, is extremely hard to believe, and can end up giving a worst image to the nuclear industry if failed to deliver.

I feel like everytime someone makes a video on nuclear power and choose to explain fission vs fusion it's only to pad out the run time.

Great concept and model. But achieving regulatory license to operate might be an issue in most countries. There also needs to be a cost-benefit analysis on long term ownership of such a power plant.

Didn’t cover the cost of the reactor though

The big issue I have with this is we have crazy people in the US shooting up transformers and electrical infrastructure. So, I would be worried about a nut case attacking a small nuclear plant.

The question is what is the price of electricity per unit?

£32 billion is still £3 billion less than the UKs Test & Trace system, which was essentially a phone app and a couple of spreadsheets.

I'm certain that submarine designs were a huge influence in these projects. I'd be curious to know the allowable purity of the uranium (I'm assuming it's uranium) used in the reactors. Certainly not military grade. I wonder how they get 40 years out of them if they're so small. Very interesting tech and I am pleased to see SMRs continue to grow in popularity. It's a super clean and efficient energy source, so long as the fission material is contained and processed correctly of course.

Id be interested to know how they deal with waste water and what their total output is?

"The Energy Impact Center is an American research institute based in Washington, D.C. It primarily advocates for the expansion of nuclear power"

Having no expertise in this area I still note that the heat power to electricity ration in Ritm - Russian ship reactors is around 2:1. For SMR, I understand, it is 3:1, so small reactors are less effective. Will they will be compatible if uranium become more expensive ?

You didn’t touch upon the radioactive waste that this plant would generate and what the disposal strategy would be? Were you not allowed to talk about that under the terms of your sponsorship deal? Would appreciate more transparency on that(I know you’re going to ignore this comment). Great idea though! We definitely need this scaled up but knowing all the facts is key for getting public approval

So you have a PWR, don't you want a containment building for that? For when/if you spring a leak in this high pressure, high temperature, high neutron flux environment?

This company looks almost as good as Theranos.

What would be the cost per Kw?cost of initial investment? maintainance? etc?

Building a plant kind of like the reactor in a nuclear submarine. Using newer and safer design, use a factory line to build a reactor with a common use amount of power. If you need more power, just add more of the block type reactors. We need to move on this. Get the examples, into plans, examples tested, peer studied, inspected, tested and approved...them move on getting them into place. Thanks for the video.