Ramesh (Ram) Budwani, CCE/A, CCA, F.A.B.I’s Post

A lot of our decarbonization/electrification and national security ambitions depend on small modular reactors ("SMRs") entering the market as commercially viable electric generating units. Some designs may allow us to harvest the energy from what we currently call "nuclear waste" (which still holds about 95% of the total energy potential) and address the nuclear waste cycle issues -- a potential twofer. The modularity and compact footprint of SMRs also offer a much needed alternative to the transmission investment feeding frenzy that has been enabled by the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission ("FERC") and promoted by the transmission service business models that are dependent on cost-plus economic regulation for earnings.

Interesting proposal from Energy Northwest to construct 12 Small Modular Reactors in central Washington. I wonder what is involved in the decision to avoid GW size reactors in favor of a dozen SMRs. #Nuclear #NuclearPower #NuclearEnergy #CleanEnergy #SMR #NewNuclear #Emissions #EmissionsReduction https://lnkd.in/dpJ_s9Bu

NYT: Three Mile Island Plans to Reopen as Demand for #NuclearPower Grows.  #NuclearEnergy #Nuclear #Energy #CleanEnergy #GreenEnergy #Uranium #TechNewshttps://lnkd.in/e9jdft53

Let's Go Texas! Kudos to Texas A&M for issuing an #RFI ahead of an #RFP for #nuclearpower manufacturers to respond and bid on providing #SMR energy solutions to Texas. Energy Demands are growing too fast for only the traditional power generation strategies to meet the need. #nuclear will fill that gap with #cleanenergy. https://lnkd.in/exrfH6un

Combined Nuclear/Solar Power (CNSP) plant is being proposed by Holtec International. This is to make use of the heat from both a #nuclear reactor (SMR-300) and concentrated #solar thermal system (HI-THERM HSP). Would be interesting to see the lifecycle cost benefits if this gets constructed and operating. #decarbonization #nuclearenergy

This is a huge step by Google to bring Kairos Power's advanced reactor technology to the commercial marketplace and further affordable and reliable #cleanenergy to the U.S. electrical grid. Kairos has made incredible technology, regulatory, and supply chain progress in recent years, which gives customers, like Google, confidence in their ability to deliver on the promises of new nuclear. This agreement accelerates an early commercial project to a late 2020s/2030 deployment, and catalyzes up to another 500 MWs through 2035. This Pippa Stevens CNBC article is one of the better overview of Monday's announcement: https://lnkd.in/e6vgEMmC You can also check out Michael Terrell's overview on the Google decision here: https://lnkd.in/eRsdRXRV New #nuclear is happening!

A few reactions to the reactions to my comments on the Goldman Sachs reort on #GenAI investment and ROI. 1. Benedikt Backhaus, I wonder if we'll see hyperscalers get much more proactive than just site facilities near nuclear power plants. At first, I thought someone would buy a 300MWe small modular reactor and build a massive data center park around it. Turns out, you can already _order_ a 5-13 MWe microreactor / "nuclear battery." How long before somebody thinks "hmmm...let me order two of these suckers and build a data center around them?" This may already be happening. https://lnkd.in/e3yM3ERQ You can imagine microreactor-friendly regulatory framework starting to influence facility siting decisions. 2. A number of folks, including Doug McDonald, Dr. Jeffrey Funk, Darius Burschka, Bijan O., Titouan Parcollet, Krzysztof Wolyniec expressed doubts about the practicality of converting free text to structured data. A few thoughts: - Looks like there's lot of debate in the literature about the extent to which RAG reduces hallucination (https://lnkd.in/eDQAKjAa) but not everyone buys it (https://lnkd.in/eY-r54au) - I think our experience has been that the more targeted the prompt (go look for these types of terms in these contracts) the more reliable the output - Naturally, analytical use cases have to be less perfect than transactional use cases -- if you're looking trending/insight, being right 95% of the time is probably just fine (and you can validate with sampling)

They are, Out of step, out of time. Soon to be decommissioned. It will be interesting as the fission fuel shortage becomes real as they try to treble the industry and advances in the renewables, hydrogen grid variable generation and batteries as a system solution of energy generation for the whole of the world not just 39 countries out of 189 not just the rich but for all without weaponisation, without pollution of our waterways and without the need to bury waste that is dangerous for 1000 of tears what a waste of time you are here. Fission is an interim unlike fusion and renewables, with the grid-attached variable hydrogen generators and batteries which are deploying faster in 189 countries as opposed to the 39 that fission can Fission fuel. It is going to get tight in 100 or 80 years. Which Nuclear fission or fusion? https://lnkd.in/g36Z4k6P

Have you ever wondered what the benefit of a project like this one would be to an economy? This is a good example. We do miss adding the potential risk and downside though. #energy #cleanenergy #nuclear #zeroCO2emissions

Best invest in Building and talking about Fusion power, space, maritime propulsion systems and industry as data centres are. Great Headline, Guardian on Nuclear fission. https://lnkd.in/g8sMZtpR People talk about Nuclear (meaning Fission) and fail to discuss fusion. https://lnkd.in/ge_aeX7M The nuclear fission industry is ignorant of what's happening around it. It must pull its collective uranium heads out of the sand and prepare to enter the commercially growing fusion energy industry. Fission is moving towards obsolescence at an ever-increasing pace, as it is "out of step, out of time, out of place, and soon to be out of Fuel" and merely temporary. https://lnkd.in/gbd_mZqk By 2028, Helion is expected to start producing electricity from its first fusion commercial power plant, which will provide electricity to Microsoft. The plant will produce at least 50 MWe after an initial ramp-up period. https://lnkd.in/gY9J3MQY Now, see what is happening in the world of the fusion industry. https://lnkd.in/g9hMBD7a As fission trebles, fuel shortage is increasingly real, https://lnkd.in/gze5rwpr