There have been CANDU reactors online for decades…
It was the reactor of choice for something like 20 years, before falling out of fashion.
MSRs are good, but are Thorium only, which wasn’t fashionable until recently.
See, prior to about 10-15 years ago, the automatic answer to “how do you get a lot of power in a water poor area” was fossil fuels. Now we have options. Nuclear is one of them, but we need to dust off some older tech and bring it up to modern standards.
That takes time, but less then inventing new types of battery that can handle grid loads.
There have been CANDU reactors online for decades…
It was the reactor of choice for something like 20 years, before falling out of fashion.
MSRs are good, but are Thorium only, which wasn’t fashionable until recently.
See, prior to about 10-15 years ago, the automatic answer to “how do you get a lot of power in a water poor area” was fossil fuels. Now we have options. Nuclear is one of them, but we need to dust off some older tech and bring it up to modern standards.
That takes time, but less then inventing new types of battery that can handle grid loads.