Elementl Power Developing Utility-Scale Advanced Nuclear Power Project in Southeast Ohio

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4. New York is looking to deploy technology like SMR's (Small Modular Reactors) in the near future

I don’t think it’s corruption. I think it’s sensible. Most experts agree, some sort of “dispatchable” source is necessary to support variable renewable sources (like wind, PV solar.) Small Modular Reactors are a reasonable solution (although I would greatly prefer nuclear fusion.)

Even the National Renewable Energy Laboratory (renamed the National Laboratory of the Rockies by a certain orange faced buffoon) in their plan for a clean grid by 2035 (now purged from their servers, but archived here: https://web.archive.org/web/20250106220818/https://www.nrel.gov/docs/fy22osti/81644.pdf ) called for deploying new nuclear reactors, especially in what they called the “Constrained Scenario.”

The Constrained scenario limits both renewable energy and transmission deployment, resulting in higher costs. The higher costs of renewables makes new nuclear capacity more cost-competitive, and in this scenario, the model builds about 200 GW of new nuclear capacity between 2030 and 2035. This scenario would require about 40 GW/year of new installation, or about four times the maximum historical rate in the United States.