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To: Straight Vermonter

The real beauty of the PBMR is its modularity.

A utility can start with a small unit and add on, as power demand increases.


7 posted on 05/19/2008 6:22:51 AM PDT by kidd
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To: kidd
The real beauty of the PBMR is its modularity. A utility can start with a small unit and add on, as power demand increases.

And one of the biggest costs for a nuke plant is all the environmental paperwork and approvals process. Once you have a nuke site approved, the incremental cost of adding more nuke modules is much lower than the cost of the site preparation for the first module

13 posted on 05/19/2008 6:31:57 AM PDT by PapaBear3625 ("In a time of universal deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act." -- George Orwell)
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