Steel recycling firm considers the use of small nuclear reactors to power its arc furnaces.

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13. As the TVA guy said - SMR's in groups of 4 make sense

in situations where large amounts of current is needed. In an industrial park where a large amount of manufacturing is going on. The above example fits as well.

But your guess that windmills end up in landfills is ridiculous (with the exception of the blades, but there is development in making them recyclable).

The major components of a windmill are mostly made of steel and aluminum. Nobody is throwing that in a landfill.

The nacelle of a wind turbine is a complex electromechanical system with quite a few components that function correctly with precision. Significant turbine parts are the generator and the turbine shaft that transfers the harvested power from wind to the generator through a gearbox. The gearbox is an essential part of the wind turbine

https://www.airpes.com/wind-turbine-parts/

Most of what doesn't get recycled in our world is because it's in trace amounts of mostly worthless electronic devices. But that's not the case with a windmill.

In the GE 1.5-megawatt model, the nacelle alone weighs more than 56 tons, the blade assembly weighs more than 36 tons, and the tower itself weighs about 71 tons — a total weight of 164 tons. The corresponding weights for the Vestas V90 are 75, 40, and 152, total 267 tons; and for the Gamesa G87 72, 42, and 220, total 334 tons.

https://www.wind-watch.org/faq-size.php

Do we throw away an automobile starter or alternator? Nope there's a core charge so they can rebuild the old one.