The largest battery banks in the world can provide a meager few minutes of grid power.
Battery storage is beyond infeasible at this time. Pumped hydro is far more cost effective, but limited to certain geographical locations, and often quite limited in capacity.
Battery storage is used for smoothing not to provide grid power.
You seem to have a fundamental misunderstanding of How much energy is required to provide base load.
My point is that utilities are already building the more effective and efficient technologies for their areas. Nobody is trying to build nuclear because it simply costs too much.
Social media ( here, Reddit) is filled with nerds obsessed with pushing nuclear mostly because they think it’s cool without a single serious consideration for the total costs.
China’s State Council has approved ten or more new reactors for construction each year since 2022.
Notable SMRs in China include:
Linglong One (ACP100): This is the world’s first commercial, land-based SMR.
Status: The first unit is nearing completion at the Changjiang Nuclear Power Plant in Hainan province.
Capacity: It has a capacity of 125 MWe.
Approval: In 2016, it was the first SMR design to pass an independent safety review by the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA).
HTR-PM: This is a high-temperature gas-cooled SMR.
Status: A demonstration project at the Shidaowan plant in Shandong province began commercial operation in December 2023.
Capacity: It consists of twin 250 MW thermal reactors, generating 210 MWe.
TMSR-LF1: China is also developing a Molten Salt Reactor (MSR).
Status: A demonstration reactor with a 10 MWe capacity was under construction in late 2025.
Like batteries which are also dropping in price every year. That’s what utilities are already doing.
Nobody is trying to build nuclear plants to back-up their solar panels.
The largest battery banks in the world can provide a meager few minutes of grid power.
Battery storage is beyond infeasible at this time. Pumped hydro is far more cost effective, but limited to certain geographical locations, and often quite limited in capacity.
Battery storage is used for smoothing not to provide grid power.
You seem to have a fundamental misunderstanding of How much energy is required to provide base load.
My point is that utilities are already building the more effective and efficient technologies for their areas. Nobody is trying to build nuclear because it simply costs too much.
Social media ( here, Reddit) is filled with nerds obsessed with pushing nuclear mostly because they think it’s cool without a single serious consideration for the total costs.
You have no idea what you are talking about.
China’s State Council has approved ten or more new reactors for construction each year since 2022.
Notable SMRs in China include: Linglong One (ACP100): This is the world’s first commercial, land-based SMR.
Status: The first unit is nearing completion at the Changjiang Nuclear Power Plant in Hainan province. Capacity: It has a capacity of 125 MWe.
Approval: In 2016, it was the first SMR design to pass an independent safety review by the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA).
HTR-PM: This is a high-temperature gas-cooled SMR. Status: A demonstration project at the Shidaowan plant in Shandong province began commercial operation in December 2023.
Capacity: It consists of twin 250 MW thermal reactors, generating 210 MWe. TMSR-LF1: China is also developing a Molten Salt Reactor (MSR). Status: A demonstration reactor with a 10 MWe capacity was under construction in late 2025.