Knowing the inherent risks, I’ve always been a proponent of nuclear. I doubt it will be regulated well in Texas though.
A huge silver lining is that if there is a meltdown, no more Aggieville.
That’s so wrong man… that’s so wrong 
I don’t want any school to be destroyed by a nuclear meltdown. But if I had to choose one… 
it would be UT. Of course it would have to have been evacuated with nobody there.
No way. Adios Aggie.
Save some catastrophe wishes for Baylor
I’ll allow it.
Actually, I think that is far sighted. We will need to greatly expand our grid capacity, and that includes generation, transmission, and distribution. Nuclear power can be a safe and reliable alternative to wind, solar, or fossil fuel powered generation.
Look at France, most of their power is nuclear. They have 56 nuclear power plants with no problems. The secret is they use one cookie cutter type instead of reinventing the wheel each time one is built.
Look at our navy, we have 80 nuclear powered ships with no problems.
I see no reason why we can’t get one design and use it over and over.
Agree, we should be doing more of it.
(Name redacted) fails to understand there is not one but two nuclear reactors in the state of Texas. But (name redacted) is very very very narrow minded
Bay city and Comanche Peak? I think?
Minor point, there are actually 4 commercial nuclear reactors in Texas. Both sites have two reactors each.
Oddly enough, I’ve noticed we have had 2 reactors down for past several weeks. Guess that’s due to planned maintenance for low demand season.
Those were the two i knew of, not sure where the other two are at that NRG mentioned.
Edit, nevermind I read his post again, two at each site!
Each site has 2 reactors. 2 x 2 = 4 reactors
Good luck, hope feel better; hope it’s just seasonal allergies ?
Yep sinus infection/whatever is going around austin, as soon as the cold front kicked in.
BTW jason is not entirely wrong, here are the calculated risks of earthquake for Comanche Peak is 1 in 250,000
The risk for Bay city is 1 in 158,730 - per the nuclear regulatory commision
I do think it is cool that we discussed this for years and it seems its finally happening, cool time to be alive
Recently they have been having problems per wiki since 2020. 20% are down. EDF is fully owned by the government.
Since June 2020, it has 56 operable reactors totalling 61,370 MWe, one under construction (1630 MWe), and 14 shut down or in decommissioning (5,549 MWe). In May 2022, EDF reported[4] that twelve reactors were shut down and being inspected for stress corrosion, requiring EDF to adjust its French nuclear output estimate for 2022 to 280–300 TWh; the estimate of the impact of the decrease in output on the Group’s EBITDA for 2022 was assessed to be −€18.5 billion.
Électricité de France (EDF) – the country’s main electricity generation and distribution company – manages the country’s 56 power reactors.[5] EDF is fully owned by the French government.
It’d be a tie between Texas and SMU.
Can we build one on the Notre Dame campus?
Why do we reinvent each time ?
Is somebody making us do this ?
Could it be because we have multiple state governments ?
Could it be we have multiple semi-private public entities created to finance, order, and oversee the build of the reactors ?
Could it be we have multiple private companies that actually design PWR and BWR in US ?
Are you saying our market freedom is the reason we don’t have cookie cutter reactors ?
How could we force utility companies to
build only the cookie cutter type ?
Several companies have designed nuclear reactors for the United States, including:
- Westinghouse
Designed the first commercial pressurized water reactor (PWR), Yankee Rowe, which operated from 1960 to 1992. Westinghouse also designed the eVinci microreactor, which is a fast-critical reactor system.
- General Electric
Designed the first commercial boiling water reactor (BWR), Dresden 1, which started up in 1960.
- Argonne National Laboratory
Developed the BWR.
- DuPont
Designed and built the B Reactor, which was graphitemoderated and water-cooled.
- Hitachi-GE Nuclear Energy
A joint venture between Hitachi and GE that is developing an advanced light-water reactor that can cool nuclear fuel during a power loss.
- BWXT Advanced Technologies, LLC
Manufacturing a mobile nuclear reactor for the Department of Defense under the Strategic Capabilities Office (SCO) initiative.
Other companies that are involved in nuclear reactor design and development include: Kairos Power, AREVA, Holtec International, TerraPower, and Terrestrial Energy.