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There's been a lot of talk about SMR's over the years, it's nice to see one finally being built.

Even if it comes in over budget, getting the first one done will be a great learning experience and could lead to figuring out how to do future ones cheaper.

Assuming it's on time, completion in 2029, connected to grid in 2030.

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[–] CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.org 1 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

There's at least as many parts in a modern reactor as in a dishwasher, but leaving that aside the modular building thing also failed to take off the n times it's been tried, and for similar reasons. I fully believe there's a speedup if you do the same project multiple times, although you'd find it would plateau after a while. There's also a speedup associated with building something large and in place.

The big savings happen when you reach a production run where you can build or configure specialised tooling and run it until after it's earned itself back.