>If after 20 minutes the bleeding has not stopped, then a condom attached to a catheter is inserted into the uterus and then inflated.

Say what?

Bees

>The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission has certified the design for what will be the United States’ first small modular nuclear reactor.

>The rule that certifies the design was published Thursday in the Federal Register. It means that companies seeking to build and operate a nuclear power plant can pick the design for a 50-megawatt, advanced light-water small modular nuclear reactor by Oregon-based NuScale Power and apply to the NRC for a license.

>It’s the final determination that the design is acceptable for use, so it can’t be legally challenged during the licensing process when someone applies to build and operate a nuclear power plant, NRC spokesperson Scott Burnell said Friday. The rule becomes effective in late February.

>The U.S. Energy Department said the newly approved design “equips the nation with a new clean power source to help drive down” planet-warming greenhouse gas emissions.

>It’s the seventh nuclear reactor design cleared for use in the United States. The rest are for traditional, large, light-water reactors.

>Diane Hughes, NuScale’s vice president of marketing and communications, said the design certification is a historic step forward toward a clean energy future and makes the company’s VOYGR power plant a near-term deployable solution for customers. The first small modular reactor design application package included over 2 million pages of supporting materials, Hughes added.

>However, David Schlissel at the Ohio-based Institute for Energy Economics and Financial Analysis expressed concerns about the costs. Schlissel, who has studied the history of the nuclear power industry and the finances of the NuScale project, expects they will continue to go up, which could limit how many NuScale reactors are built. He said he thinks they’re not competitive in price with renewables and battery storage.

>Hughes said from wind and solar to hydrogen and nuclear, energy projects have seen cost increases due to changing financial market dynamics, interest rate hikes and inflationary pressures on the sector’s supply chain that have not been seen in decades. NuScale’s VOYGR power plant remains a cost competitive source of reliable, affordable and carbon-free energy, she added.

>For many, nuclear power is emerging as an answer as states and countries transition away from coal, oil and natural gas to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and stave off the worst effects of a warming planet.

>Roughly 40 serious concepts are in development for the next generation of advanced nuclear reactors worldwide. China was the first to connect a next-generation reactor to its grid to produce about 200 megawatts of electricity. A high-temperature, gas-cooled reactor began operating in 2021.

>The U.S. Energy Department said it provided more than $600 million since 2014 to support the design, licensing and siting of NuScale’s VOYGR small modular reactor power plant and other domestic small reactor concepts. The department is working with Utah Associated Municipal Power Systems to demonstrate a six-module NuScale VOYGR plant at the Idaho National Laboratory. The first module is expected to be operational by 2029.

>NuScale has signed 19 agreements in the U.S. and internationally to deploy its small reactor technology. Assistant Secretary for Nuclear Energy Kathryn Huff said small modular reactors are no longer an abstract concept.

>“They are real and they are ready for deployment thanks to the hard work of NuScale, the university community, our national labs, industry partners, and the NRC,” Huff said in a statement. “This is innovation at its finest and we are just getting started here in the U.S.”

>NuScale has also applied to the NRC for approval of a larger design, at 77 megawatts per module, and the agency is checking the application for completeness before starting a full review, Burnell said.

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We have a lot of Mexican labor in Washington state but where I live I’m some of the what feels like the first Mexican to the area. There are so few of us.

Beads?

Good old Coney Island College. Go Whitefish!

Not entirely true, nor entirely false haha. I know USA still does manufacturing but if you looked globally, even China is starting to get out capitalismed. Myanmar is where the cheap labour is at now, though if we go further you'll just see child labour there. Welcome to late stage capitalism.

As for Labour, I believe Mexicans are your equavilents of cheap Labour. I believe in paying good honest money for good honest work, so I do it personally with my construction friends and share the profits equally after sales comms. A very rare thing where I'm from.

different places have different requirements. Your take out meals there generally fall within 10$ I believe while ours here is at 3$. At the end of the day I can't comment too much but USA ain't the friendliest place to start a business with all the overheads and taxes.

You think folk are gonna help bees out of the kindness of there hearts?

It would almost be cheaper for me to fly a team over here with the parts and pay you all very well and still come out cheaper.

Jesus FC. People be making like 50k profits. Thanks for the insight.

I am a solar contractor myself. But considering that I'm from Singapore instead of the US its very different over here. Generally people stay in government housing apartment equavilents and the entire grid is owned and managed by the government so they pretty much got the monopoly on how much the selling back of electricity is worth.

Equipment wise, China and Taiwan is the answer. Even for brands like jinko where research is done in Germany, the entire manufacturing is done there. At the end of the day, the panels are pretty much made from sand into silicon crystals and I've sent a couple of different brands for lab testing since the tenders I'm working has it as a requirement, they all yielded results with less than 1% of variance.

Labour wise most of the workers here are migrant workers from places like blangadesh. Blue collar jobs are highly looked Down upon here and its valued cheaply as compared to places like nz or AU.

So yea overall a 20 panel system here in sg goes for around 20k sgd which is around 17k usd without a battery system. After factoring margins and logistics.

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Didnt Oregon's native bees die out because of the introduction of a lot of honey bees?

This is their future

https://dolphin-n2.com

Oh my it was supposed to be New Jersey

zombee

Not enough people on this thread know what a Coney Island whitefish is, smh. I think yours is the best comment!!

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Family of 4. It’s a 5 bedroom 3 bath home. 2700sqft home so not huge and half of it is a basement. Really it wasn’t too many panels. It was 102% efficiency and no battery pack. It was at most a 30 panel system on my roof. I was like I’m gonna have to pass and not own my own grid.

For an 8 panel system it was going to cost me 30k. That was a package just to get my foot into solar.

Can you tell me where you found your prices or who was going to do the work for you? I was using blue Raven, but it was just so expensive. I didn’t want to do that. I was going to finance a sports car soon and I thought if I did solar panels, It would be bye bye sports car.

I was talking specifically about European applications. US passenger rail is a disaster regardless of power source for legal, logistical, political, and social reasons. It's really sad. I like having my car as much as any other suburbanite, but I've seen good passenger rail systems around the world, and they're really nice to have.

they're already here

Exactly. There are several different ratings for hydrogen sources. If it's not "green" (renewable sourced) or "pink" (nuclear sourced), it is precisely what you described. Just a way for hydrocarbon producers to prop up demand for their products a few more years.

That mostly due to us freight rail being very focused on tight margins. That's why even in very dense rail areas they still use diesel trains.

I hope that's an unfortunate spelling mistake.