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Title: New welding tech eliminates major bottleneck for nuclear construction
Post by: Laconian on February 22, 2024, 02:20:04 AM
https://newatlas.com/energy/nuclear-reactor-weld-one-day/

12 months' worth of welding can now be done in a day. Quite a breakthrough!
Title: Re: New welding tech eliminates major bottleneck for nuclear construction
Post by: FoMoJo on February 22, 2024, 07:10:57 AM
Sounds useful.

Small Modular Reactors must certainly be the future for nuclear energy.  I wonder how small they can make them.
Title: Re: New welding tech eliminates major bottleneck for nuclear construction
Post by: CaminoRacer on February 22, 2024, 08:23:55 AM
That's a huge leap in productivity
Title: Re: New welding tech eliminates major bottleneck for nuclear construction
Post by: MrH on February 22, 2024, 10:29:47 AM
Can't wait to pick one up from Harbor Freight.
Title: Re: New welding tech eliminates major bottleneck for nuclear construction
Post by: SJ_GTI on February 23, 2024, 05:43:49 AM
Quote from: MrH on February 22, 2024, 10:29:47 AMCan't wait to pick one up from Harbor Freight.

 :lol:
Title: Re: New welding tech eliminates major bottleneck for nuclear construction
Post by: Morris Minor on February 23, 2024, 07:39:47 AM
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/
Title: Re: New welding tech eliminates major bottleneck for nuclear construction
Post by: r0tor on February 23, 2024, 08:03:39 AM
Quote from: Morris Minor on February 23, 2024, 07:39:47 AMThis 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.
Title: Re: New welding tech eliminates major bottleneck for nuclear construction
Post by: CaminoRacer on February 23, 2024, 09:23:59 AM
Quote from: MrH on February 22, 2024, 10:29:47 AMCan't wait to pick one up from Harbor Freight.

The welder or the nuclear reactor? :lol: