Time to talk cross border collaboration to advance deployment! This is how we can standardize designs, share costs and create international supply chains!

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🇺🇲 We compared our licensing processes, evolved into collaboration between TVA, OPG on the BWRX-300.

🇨🇦 The outcome are published and demonstration how NRC and CNSC can leverage off each other.
Moderator: what are the synergies?

🇨🇦 If build is in Canada first we are pleased to engage with US NRC to come and observe lessons learned.

🇺🇲 More countries are interested in coming on board -- nuclear standardization initiative at IAEA.

"NOAC" -- nth of a country
When Prescriptive (NRC) meets performance-based (CNSC)

Alignment of legal and technical is necessary. But how?

🇨🇦 Our regulatory framework are flexible enough that there are no impediments.

"Neutrons in the US are the same as in Canada"

🇺🇲 Agreed...mostly.

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May 7
People are asking whether the AP300 SMR by is late to the party.

TL;DR I think not. The AP1000 is obviously going places and can take the lil brother along. But let’s take this opportunity to do an SMR roundup.

Just my opinions…the SMR field not as thick as you think…

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⚡️The BWRX-300 by GE-Hitachi⚡️

The closest thing we have to a sure thing. Unexotic design. Experienced company. Great partners.

A great sign for success is the customers OPG, TVA and Synthos are pooling resources to mature the design, lessening First-of-a-kind (FOAK) risk. Image
⚡️VOYGR SMR by NuScale⚡️
NuScale has the only SMR with a design certificate by the NRC. But.

The dramatic projected cost increase for it’s FOAK Carbon-free Power Project announced in January means its first customer can get cold-feet.

The project is in the balance! Image
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May 4
What makes a car a product and a traditional nuclear power plant a project? If it's not made in a factory under controlled conditions, then it's not a product.

And that's a problem, argues @kirstygogan and Eric Ingersoll of @TerraPraxis.

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@TerraPraxis is a non-profit putting that principle, which a lot of us in the nuclear sphere know well, into practice. The reason? We need a LOT of nuclear if we want to reach out climate goals. Like, we need it in BULK.

The incredible ambition: 700GW a year. Image
Projects ==> products

🌄 Design for a large set of sites so the design can be standardized.
🔐 Be vigilant in isolating the nuclear (sensitive) part of the plant from the rest of the site.
🛠️ Design a manufacture and assembly.
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May 4
Really looking forward to this...the international deployment panel! How do we get more countries to adopt nuclear energy? Image
Jonathan Cobb of World Nuclear Association: "if you get approval for a plane usually you can fly everywhere...there needs to be more commonality and streamlining." Regulator are working together...but more please! Image
Kalev @kallemets CEO of Fermi Energia. "In the regulatory space we live in the traumas of the past. The public has moved on"

Estonia went from 51 to 75 percent in public support of new developments!

Outreach works! Image
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Mar 14
Today Taiwan say goodbye to the 2nd reactor of the #2 Nuclear Power Plant, also known as Guosheng. The 985MW BWR from GE has served Taiwan well for 40 years. But for politics, it could have served for 40 more.

What a tragedy…but also, a farce.🧵
“Taiwan is not lacking in electricity” is the eternal mantra of the government. Why, then, are manufacturers being ‘voluntold’ to reduce production to save on power on a regular basis?

Renewables and hydro are supposed to cover the gap, but the govt already revised down their renewables goal for 2025 and hydro capacity haven’t changed for decades.

So that’s really going to cover the gap? More gas. More coal.

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Jan 22
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We all think of Germany as the Richie Rich of Europe, but kinda arrogant and sanctimonious. And what with that sweet European welfare state model, life must be good for the Germans right?

You have no idea how wrong, and you’ll never guess why…🧵
Look at the mean household income. Yo. 🇩🇪 families are not just below 🇫🇷🇧🇪🇦🇹, but even 🇪🇸 and 🇮🇹. What’s going on?

BUT WAIT, it gets worse.
That was the MEAN average household. Now we look at the median household income. Fuuuuuuu…😱

Germany might be a rich country, but the average German is poor. Poorer than even their equivalents in Greece the “basket case” of Europe.

What is going on?
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Dec 19, 2022
I got to catch up with a grid expert in Taiwan to do due-diligence work today for a 1,044MW offshore wind farm project. He praised Taipower to the skies when it comes to grid connection. I was surprised because in TW we’re constantly gaslit from outside that Taipower sucks.🧵
“It’s an engineer’s dream,” he said. Unlike in Australia, where the power producers, the grid companies and the retailers are all separate entities, resulting in a lot of vagueness and finger pointing, Taipower is in charge of everything when it comes to allocating grid capacity.
Taipower’s top-down approach brings decisiveness and clarity. They know how much a connection point can handle, how much is being used, and can tell you how much you’re going to get. Unfortunately, we’re going the way of Australia, away from the centralized utility.
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