Comments by "David Elliott" (@davidelliott5843) on "Nuclear 4.0 | The Small Modular Reactor Revolution" video.

The Moltex Static Salt design does away with almost every hazard from traditional nuclear power. Its sheer simplicity and intrinsic safety should dramatically reduce costs. It’s also scaleable by building more reactors on the same site. It is naturally load following and and cannot over heat. Excessive temperature stops the nuclear reaction long before it becomes dangerous. It could be disconnected from load at full power and nothing nasty would happen. It has boron shut-down rods but they are not needed as an emergency tool. There is no water or steam in the core so no pressure and considerably less corrosion than we get in PWR cores. We should be moving heaven and earth to build these things. Instead we have an out of control nuclear regulator that completely stalled progress. Moltex is now getting the job done in Canada.
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@polla2256 Nukes provide base load. If your city has just the one, what happens when it goes offline?
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@nickbrutanna9973 Fukushima has the same floor plan as any old coal fired power plant. Boiler at back turbines and feed pumps, next cooling water pumps at front along with any emergency systems. A plant on the coast or river needs to be this way. However a nuke with its emergency cooling and generator plant adjacent to the sea wall is just idiotic. All it needed was a big wave and the whole thing is toast. The emergency stuff could have easily been put on higher ground. But they stuck with an inappropriate tradition.
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