This is old-fashioned technology. We should build Stable Salt Reactors instead - safer, cheaper and cleaner. See Moltex Energy UK's SSR(W)
@GobbersmackАй бұрын
Does the building have to look like a tumor though?
@tonywilson4713Ай бұрын
I suggest to EVERYONE who watches this get some perspective. There's a long presentation by Tom Peacock, Component Lead, Steam Generator & Heat Exchangers, Rolls-Royce SMR posted by Cambridge Society for the Application of Research and posted here on KZbin 1 Dec 2022. He goes over EVERYTHING and its worth watching if you're a tech geek and I am an aerospace engineer. *HOWEVER* he also says quite clearly that they wont be available until at least 2035. That's the bit of perspective that people need to understand. Yes its very likely that SMRs will be fantastic and deliver as claimed, *BUT THEY ARE NOT HERE YET AND WONT BE FOR SOME TIME.* Meanwhile we have to deal with the facts that many developed nations now have failing energy sectors because we have some many old worn out power stations and its NOT because engineers haven't been trying to warn people. *It just doesn't make very good media to have a boring engineer warn you about how old the local power station is failing.*
@kevinnorris56922 ай бұрын
Get RR SMRs chosen!
@tonywilson4713Ай бұрын
I suggest to EVERYONE who watches this get some perspective. There's a long presentation by Tom Peacock, Component Lead, Steam Generator & Heat Exchangers, Rolls-Royce SMR posted by Cambridge Society for the Application of Research and posted here on KZbin 1 Dec 2022. He goes over EVERYTHING and its worth watching if you're a tech geek and I am an aerospace engineer. *HOWEVER* he also says quite clearly that they wont be available until at least 2035. That's the bit of perspective that people need to understand. Yes its very likely that SMRs will be fantastic and deliver as claimed, *BUT THEY ARE NOT HERE YET AND WONT BE FOR SOME TIME.* Meanwhile we have to deal with the facts that many developed nations now have failing energy sectors because we have some many old worn out power stations and its NOT because engineers haven't been trying to warn people. *It just doesn't make very good media to have a boring engineer warn you about how old the local power station is failing.*
@huxley496202 ай бұрын
Love it. Rolls Royce is leading the way!
@tonywilson4713Ай бұрын
I suggest to EVERYONE who watches this get some perspective. There's a long presentation by Tom Peacock, Component Lead, Steam Generator & Heat Exchangers, Rolls-Royce SMR posted by Cambridge Society for the Application of Research and posted here on KZbin 1 Dec 2022. He goes over EVERYTHING and its worth watching if you're a tech geek and I am an aerospace engineer. *HOWEVER* he also says quite clearly that they wont be available until at least 2035. That's the bit of perspective that people need to understand. Yes its very likely that SMRs will be fantastic and deliver as claimed, *BUT THEY ARE NOT HERE YET AND WONT BE FOR SOME TIME.* Meanwhile we have to deal with the facts that many developed nations now have failing energy sectors because we have some many old worn out power stations and its NOT because engineers haven't been trying to warn people. *It just doesn't make very good media to have a boring engineer warn you about how old the local power station is failing.*
@dorson7233 ай бұрын
Have you seen any good technology come out of uk in past decades?
@unda256 ай бұрын
is very good to have free electric energy for everybody without depending of Russia!
@ecofriend936 ай бұрын
Any word of first deployment? Unfortunately the US' Nuscale installation got canceled
@user-gx1tt8zy3w7 ай бұрын
British design and built, needs British investment not foreign. The government should stop sitting on the fence.
@lg58197 ай бұрын
When will the British government stop hesitating and give RR the go ahead to build SMR across the U.K.. 🇬🇧
@planje47407 ай бұрын
- ди има британац а да мисли на људе а не на себе или паре
@iancanty98757 ай бұрын
It’s about time the UK government got its finger out and placed an order with Rolls Royce for at least 2 smrs. The estimated initial cost or £2 to £3 billion and a target price of £1.8 billion, they’re a fraction of the cost of a full scale reactor, cheaper and safer to run. If they spent as much on a bunch of smrs as they are doing on Hinckley Point, the actual generating capacity / £ would be greater.
@lolroflpmsl6 ай бұрын
I've been saying this for ages.
@iancanty98756 ай бұрын
@@lolroflpmsl What we believe about SMR’s was at one time promoted quite widely online and several positive articles can still be found. That’s where I got info to base my comment on. However, recently I’ve noticed several critical articles which offer nothing but negativity and contradiction. It makes me wonder why and who is behind this criticism and what are their motives. I think something fishy is going on. Especially when other renewable energy systems are not without major problems, such as the toxic heavy metals within solar panels and their poor efficiency when they get dirty. Also, the difficulty in disposing the huge fibreglass wind turbine blades, which only have a lifespan of 20 years at best. Already they are being dumped in landfill and even in piles here and there across the country. SMR’s would seem to be the sensible, continuous, long term solution until nuclear fusion is perfected.
@lolroflpmsl6 ай бұрын
@@iancanty9875 As the next generation of reactors they make sense, but the same could be said if you build a dozen AP1000s, the economy of scale drives cost down. The challenge we have is that there's only so much uranium and we're going to have to revisit closing the fuel cycle (again) in light of others also being interested in increased nuclear capacity. Gen IV reactors are the next step, logically, but development is needed.
@marble2967 ай бұрын
Impossible to fit everything into a single module. A collection of modules maybe. Also what if it goes wrong? You can't move it easily and the containment won't be the same as a fixed building. It's a gimmick. Should have been perfecting how to build an actual plant like the French have for decades. Instead of trying to leapfrog back in with this half baked idea.
@thefowlyetti27 ай бұрын
Its a lot cheaper to build these all over the country than massive plants like Hinkley C which is in the news recently for massive delays and cost over runs.
@marble2967 ай бұрын
@@thefowlyetti2at least we know the cost and hinkley exists as a physical thing. This does not.
@thefowlyetti27 ай бұрын
Rolls Royce have been building small nuclear reactors for decades. Its not like its a revolutionary product, just a new concept. Id rather the government invest in home grown nuclear industry rather than the mess EDF has become.@@marble296
@rogerb087 ай бұрын
What if what goes wrong ? this is a 3rd Gen PWR they’ve been around for ages and RR already use them in Subs, as for for Containment these things are designed to withstand a LOCA
@andrewjameson59187 ай бұрын
What about the waste from the SMR. Where will that go in 60 years
@LonelyWolfTBTM7 ай бұрын
To the moon, like my RR stocks!
@ecofriend936 ай бұрын
My understanding is that these devices are self contained meaning that once exhausted they can be safely buried without fear of leakage.
@simonjohnson122 күн бұрын
This is one of many reasons why we should build Stable Salt Reactors instead. The SSR(W) can consume existing waste unlike the RR SMR which makes long lived high level radioactive waste.
@varcoliciulalex7 ай бұрын
any estimate on the cost?
@GobbersmackАй бұрын
5 Billion dollars, 55 Billion if the government gets involved.
@colinmegson71077 ай бұрын
You need to get on board with nuclear enabled hydrogen (NEH) for every SMR ordered. Paired with a PEM electrolyser, each SMR, operatin at 100% availability, would be able to load follow grid demand in milliseconds; even the crazy, random generation forms from wind and solar. Operators would qualify for 4 revenue streams and be able to sell greener-than-green NEH into the existing hydrogen market, most probably at a premium. 'Selling' an SMR + NEH manufacture to the government will be 10X easier than 'selling' the SMR on its own. Search for: cost of powering the uk with smrs and neh
@Andrew-rc3vh7 ай бұрын
Also if you were clever you could use the waste heat through a heat exchanger.
@garycooper3477 ай бұрын
If Rolls Royce do not get the British contract I will not be suprised because of our totally reprehensible politicians
@hemshah15677 ай бұрын
Government is already providing good support to SMR industry 😁
@jonmould29467 ай бұрын
Wow only a million homes. They're letting in 1 million per year from the third 🌎.
@lg58197 ай бұрын
Exactly, there’ll give it to Hitachi to save costs and later regret it when RR build these abroad. I’m sure our globalist government are deliberately ruining british manufacturing, ever since Margaret Thatcher began privatisation.
@lg58197 ай бұрын
@@hemshah1567yes but who? Hitachi and foreign firms?
@lawncare-4u8493 ай бұрын
Looks like getting Polish government contract first.
@jsizzlemackashizzle89447 ай бұрын
Not sure why Britain isn't all over this? They are playing games and won't give the contract to RYCEY. Could you imagine these numbnutts giving these jobs and business to a foreign entity, instead of rolls royce?