small modular reactors

also referred to as: smrs

3 statements across 2 episodes · 1 bullish · 1 bearish · 2 people on the record · first statement Dec 12, 2023 by Eric Wesoff · across every show →

Everything said about small modular reactors, oldest first

Dec 12, 2023 bearish
Opinion
Wesoff: SMRs are engineering solutions misapplied to financial and PR problems
“Small reactors, SMRs, are a nuclear engineering solution to a financial problem. We need a financial solution to this financial problem. Small modular reactors are a nuclear engineering, engineering solution to a PR problem. We need a PR solution to that, not …”
Eric Wesoff Dec 12, 2023 ▶ 35:08 Making sense of advanced nuclear’s stumbles
Jun 10, 2024 bullish
Prediction Not checkable as stated
Beebe: Geothermal can power AI data centers in 3-4 years vs 10 for SMRs
“Building de novo facilities to power either clusters or giga sites for massive data centers, I think is going to be much, much harder, and they're going to try with small modular reactors, that's a ten-year kind of process, but doing it with geothermal, I thin…”
Andrew Beebe Jun 10, 2024 ▶ 20:34 AI-fueled geothermal and ‘the edge of the possible’
Made with StarZero

Turn any episode into a week of clips.

This entire site, over 100 episodes transcribed, diarized, checked and made playable, runs on the StarZero media pipeline. Drop in your own episode and the podcast clipper finds the moments worth sharing, cuts them, captions them, and reframes them for every feed.