Re: Remember "Bit-Slice" Chips ?

On Wed, 11 Dec 2024, rbowman wrote:

On Tue, 10 Dec 2024 21:57:36 +0100, D wrote:
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The government owner power company at first refused to consider nuclear,
since it was not economically feasible. The CEO was switftly removed by
the new government, or she was forcefully instructed behind closed doors
(don't remember which actually) and all of a sudden they reluctantly
agreed to consider it.

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That will be a hurdle in the US; quite a few nuclear plants were
decommissioned because they proved to be economically unfeasible.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rancho_Seco_Nuclear_Generating_Station
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There was great weeping when Rancho Seco shut down and SMUD had to
restructure their generation capacity. That was replaced by sighs of
relief when SMUD realized they would have been destroyed by the energy
deregulation fiasco.
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Lo and behold... (or talking about the trolls, to imperfectly translate a swedish saying...) from todays mainstream news on the topic of swedish nuclear:
"The planned new nuclear power reactors at Ringhals cannot be accommodated. In any case, not if the nature reserve on the Väröhalvön is to continue.
Now Vattenfall is taking the unusual step of applying to cancel the reserve.
Already when Vattenfall began sketching new reactors on the Värö Peninsula, it was clear that it would be difficult to manage without encroaching on the Biskopshagen nature reserve. Among other things, the reserve is set up for recreational areas for the public.
- Those regulations, we see, will be difficult to fulfill. So therefore the procedure will be that we apply to cancel the entire nature reserve, says Desirée Comstedt, head of new nuclear power at Vattenfall.
The impact is greatest during the construction period itself. Then the hope is that parts of the area can become a nature reserve again.
- A small part of the nature reserve will also be a future industrial area. But the greater part of the encroachment on the nature reserve is during the construction phase, she says.
Otherwise, the plans are progressing roughly as planned. The next step is to submit documents for the consultation that Vattenfall will have with local authorities and the public in late winter. In addition, the number of suppliers of the reactors themselves will be scaled down further in the "near future", according to Comstedt.
Recently, an investigation put forward the risk-sharing model with the state that Vattenfall believes must be in place. It is now being fully evaluated, but management thinks it is largely good.
- There we see that there are good conditions for that model to be able to provide a basis for an investment decision, says Desirée Comstedt.
Vattenfall has also not put its foot down regarding the type of reactors to be built, conventional large, or smaller, so-called SMR.
- For us, the technology decision is not the big thing, but it is more about the commercial offer that the various suppliers have, says Comstedt.
Whether there will be time to sod before the end of the current government's term of office, as the government promised early on, is highly uncertain. Many pieces of the puzzle remain, including environmental permits, which often take time."
So there apparently are tiny steps in the right direction.