Gosh topics get hot all over the place.

China’s power crunch set to be its next financial shockBy Bloomberg News September 28, 2021 — 8.25am"The crackdown on power consumption is being driven by rising demand for electricity and surging coal and gas prices as well as strict targets from Beijing to cut emissions. It’s coming first to the country’s mammoth manufacturing industries: from aluminum smelters to textiles producers and soybean processing plants, factories are being ordered to curb activity or – in some instances – shut altogether."

Looking at the SMR's not surprised to noticed China has a big intresting in them

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The energy crisis wreaking havoc across the globe

Stephen Bartholomeusz

Senior business columnist

September 28, 2021 — 11.59am

The UK’s chaotic fuel crisis has a number of home-grown elements but underlying them is an increasingly global energy crunch.


"There is a complicated confluence of factors behind the surge in energy prices, with slightly different ingredients in each of the economies, but the common one is that energy costs have soared."

A quick SMR look " https://www.greentechmedia.com/articles/read/so-what-exactly-are-small-modular-nuclear-reactors

Oregon-based NuScale Power, one of the front-runners in SMR development, estimates it could build its first plant, with a dozen 50-megawatt reactors totaling a net 684 megawatts of electrical power, for $3 billion.

That’s roughly 20 percent cheaper on an installed per-megawatt basis than the $14 billion quoted to the Georgia Public Service Commission in 2014 for the two 1.25-gigawatt units now under construction at the Vogtle plant located near Waynesboro in that state. (Vogtle’s costs have now ballooned to around $28 billion.)"

If this is true "$3 billion" can not build a Coal plant ! Extending the "Liddell Power Station in New South Wales for five years beyond its planned closure date in 2022 is estimated to be almost one billion dollars." "There are only two operating coal power stations with CCS in the world: Boundary Dam in Canada (which cost US$1.5 billion to build for just 110MW) and Petra Nova in the United States (US$1 billion for 240MW). A further project, the Kemper Power Station, was intended to be the largest coal power station with CCS in the United States but the plan to use coal was scrapped in 2017 after costs doubled to reach US$7.5 billion."

Link No need to be Albert Einstein to see why Canada is looking at SMR in advanced planning for several. PS Albert Einstein is realy the father of splitting the atom in many to most peoples view.

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