The Linglong One reactor is not in commercial operation and is only being tested.
Akademik Lomonosov in Pevek Russia is not an SMR (if you are refering to the KLT-40S). It IS a nuclear reactor though. (It’s a floating reactor on a barge using an existing design. For testing.)
Darlington, Ontario online by 2030. Yes, the BWRX-300 is not functioning yet.
I can add one more to your underwhelming list: the HTR-PM in Shangdon Province, China which is an SMR and does - from time to time - provide power to a local area. But still has teething troubles and hasn’t left testing phase. Any more? It’s a technology that’s being hyped beyond current capabilities.
So where is this waste to be dumped (sorry) stored? Is it going to be dumped (sorry) stored underground in mines in the UK? At the bottom of the sea? “Recycled” in some foreign country that the UK will pay?
Bearing in mind that the waste is utterly lethal for at least 10,000 years and more likely about 10,000 years. And also bearing in mind that some of these so-called SMRs have waste removed daily. Plus the cannisters that hold the waste have an expected lifespan of 50 years! And bearing in mind that current UK nuclear waste is dumped (sorry) stored only in TEMPORARY storage at Sellafield…
As for “due diligence”: the UK government is committed to spending £3.19 billion on the SMR project in the immediate future. This means that a great deal of public money is being handed over to a lot of private companies (already £900 million handed out) on a technology that isn’t successfully up-and-running anywhere in the world. In contrast, there are many non-nuclear and genuinely clean technologies that are up-and-running.
I’ve just checked your reply:
I can add one more to your underwhelming list: the HTR-PM in Shangdon Province, China which is an SMR and does - from time to time - provide power to a local area. But still has teething troubles and hasn’t left testing phase. Any more? It’s a technology that’s being hyped beyond current capabilities.
So where is this waste to be
dumped(sorry) stored? Is it going to bedumped(sorry) stored underground in mines in the UK? At the bottom of the sea? “Recycled” in some foreign country that the UK will pay?Bearing in mind that the waste is utterly lethal for at least 10,000 years and more likely about 10,000 years. And also bearing in mind that some of these so-called SMRs have waste removed daily. Plus the cannisters that hold the waste have an expected lifespan of 50 years! And bearing in mind that current UK nuclear waste is dumped (sorry) stored only in TEMPORARY storage at Sellafield…
As for “due diligence”: the UK government is committed to spending £3.19 billion on the SMR project in the immediate future. This means that a great deal of public money is being handed over to a lot of private companies (already £900 million handed out) on a technology that isn’t successfully up-and-running anywhere in the world. In contrast, there are many non-nuclear and genuinely clean technologies that are up-and-running.
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