power grid
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Small Modular Reactors
https://www.iaea.org/newscenter/news/what-are-small-modular-reactors-smrs Tech giants are signing deals with nuclear power companies to supply energy to their data centers. Many of these deals revolve around unproven Small Modular Reactors (SMRs). This is a relatively new term for most people, so I figured it as worth it to dig in a little to help it make sense. First…
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Space Weather
We now go live to Ollie Williams for the weather. What’s the weather looking like today, Ollie? So, this is only tangentially connected to nuclear power, but space weather is a thing and can impact the power grid. Earlier today, the earth was hit by a coronal mass ejection (CME) associated with an X class…
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Grid Nightmares
Today, the FBI Director warned Congress that Chinese hackers are preparing to wreak havoc on US critical infrastructure. Critical infrastructure is just what it sounds like. Things like water treatment plants and power stations, banks and refineries, communications and emergency services. In a nutshell, the lifeblood of modernity. Without these functions, we are back to…
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Grid Operations
First, a disclosure. I am NOT a grid expert in the same way I am a nuclear power expert. I know quite a bit about the grid and how it works, but I have never operated it nor have I been trained to do so. It’s a highly complex system and takes a lot of…
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