You know, this is not an emotional reaction. I'm doing risk management and business continuity in a technical field, and I know enough about the real world to confidently say that any promise about "this won't blow up" is a lie in the long run.
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Oh. Pebble reactors. We had one of those in Germany. Guess what, it had interesting failure modes that hadn't been anticipated. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AVR_reactor …
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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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