New welding tech eliminates major bottleneck for nuclear construction

[Laconian]

https://newatlas.com/energy/nuclear-reactor-weld-one-day/

12 months' worth of welding can now be done in a day. Quite a breakthrough!

[FoMoJo]

Sounds useful.

Small Modular Reactors must certainly be the future for nuclear energy.  I wonder how small they can make them.

[CaminoRacer]

That's a huge leap in productivity

[MrH]

Can't wait to pick one up from Harbor Freight.

[SJ_GTI]

Can't wait to pick one up from Harbor Freight.

 

[Morris Minor]

This sort of innovation should figure into where we want to go with our power generation infrastructure. Right now we want people to switch to electricity for everything, but we neither want to allow existing infrastructure to supply it nor allow new infrastructure to be built to deliver it. It's total incoherence from our low-ability policymakers.

American families and businesses rightfully expect their lights to stay on at a price they can afford.
Unfortunately, our country is now confronted with a harsh reality — we are quickly approaching a point where there won't be enough electricity to go around.
More:
https://www.todayinmississippi.com/story/a-recipe-to-fix-americas-broken-energy-policy/

[r0tor]

This sort of innovation should figure into where we want to go with our power generation infrastructure. Right now we want people to switch to electricity for everything, but we neither want to allow existing infrastructure to supply it nor allow new infrastructure to be built to deliver it. It's total incoherence from our low-ability policymakers.

American families and businesses rightfully expect their lights to stay on at a price they can afford.
Unfortunately, our country is now confronted with a harsh reality — we are quickly approaching a point where there won't be enough electricity to go around.
More:
https://www.todayinmississippi.com/story/a-recipe-to-fix-americas-broken-energy-policy/

Trashy news.  They talk about PJM losing 25GWh of dino grade generation like it's meaningful.  It's not.  PJM uses their reliability pricing model to raise or lower capacity payments to generation stations to give market signals if they need more or less generation capacity.

The latest auction cleared at a lower price than previous years signalling they have too much generation compared to previous years.  With every dino plant going offline there is a butt ton of renewable energy going online.

[CaminoRacer]

Can't wait to pick one up from Harbor Freight.

The welder or the nuclear reactor?