Re: Remember "Bit-Slice" Chips ?

On Mon, 9 Dec 2024, The Natural Philosopher wrote:

On 09/12/2024 09:53, D wrote:

Swedens government has now decided that sweden shall have new, working nuclear power in 10 years.
 I would bet several hundred euros against this being done on time.

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I'm not so sure.
At the moment Rolls Royce is going through the red tape box ticking exercise on their reactors.
They want to deploy the first ones by 2030.
The Czech Republic is working with RR on this as well
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There is a huge potential market for the first companies to put together scalable small modular reactors that are in mass production.
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Build your concrete structures, pop in a boiler and turbines and some generators and ship a complete reactor in, and plug it in to a factory produced control system, and that's it.
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5 years top's is the aim

This is the government. No SMR:s in sight. They are thinking about "safe" traditional ones.
If they get it done in 10 years, and if they dare to explore SMR:s, I will be happily proven wrong.