Large scale nuclear power plants take hundreds of millions or billions of dollars of investment and loads of time to build. It’s more likely that any nuclear revolution is going to come in the form of smaller scale micro reactors.
Smaller reactors that can be placed at sites of existing fossile fuel plants (that already have the necessary grid connection) do indeed sound like an interesting option. However the fast advances in grid battery storage at those same sites as well as potential novel geothermal drilling methods aiming to do the same are more likely to arrive in the short to medium term than those proposed small nuclear reactors.
Large scale nuclear power plants take hundreds of millions or billions of dollars of investment and loads of time to build. It’s more likely that any nuclear revolution is going to come in the form of smaller scale micro reactors.
Smaller reactors that can be placed at sites of existing fossile fuel plants (that already have the necessary grid connection) do indeed sound like an interesting option. However the fast advances in grid battery storage at those same sites as well as potential novel geothermal drilling methods aiming to do the same are more likely to arrive in the short to medium term than those proposed small nuclear reactors.