Let's talk about the cost of sticking it into another one every 40 years for the next million years. And the risk.
Graphite powder in hot air is explosive. There are possible explosive failure modes in this type of reactor as well.
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Yeah, but it doesn't release radioactive isotopes into the environment when it explodes.
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Of course, nuclear plants are not very good at quickly changing load either. So your gas turbines won't go away. Except of course they might in either scenario:https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/australasia/tesla-mega-battery-south-australia-outage-reaction-time-hornsdale-power-reserve-a8130986.html …
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Percent of what, and how is that relevant to nuclear plants being much too slow to regulate peak?
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