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jasonwatkinspdxyesterday at 10:48 PM1 replyview on HN

Yeah, the issue isn't knowing how to build small reactors, it's whether you can do so with enough economy of scale and learning to make it cheaper than conventional nuclear.

And I personally have switched from bull to bear on that. I was rooting for NuScale but they're hitting the same thing as everyone else.

Meanwhile, battery storage has been on an insane cost reduction curve.


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FlowingRiveryesterday at 11:19 PM

This is a key point to many things. Need to identify the difference between technically viable and economically viable.

It is the same argument I make for Starship. Technically, yeah it should work. The economics of of going to Mars, not so sure about that.

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