Tony Roulstone - Nuclear's Economy of Scale vs Volume
Channel: gordonmcdowell
Date: 24/04/2015

"Making Small Modular Reactors a Reality - Economy of Scale v Economy of Volume" was a presentation delivered by Tony Roulstone at the 5th annual SMR summit in 2015.

Tony reviews French data regarding their 58 reactors, and why costs climbed and fell during their production. France's deployment was in contrast to USA's 100+ reactors which saw little standardization during construction.

SMR offer the potential for enormous economies of volume production, but the process must be tailored to capture those savings. So Tony coins the term "SMMR - Small Modular Manufactured Reactors".

Conference: http://nuclearenergyinsider.com

Tony Roulstone: http://www.energy.cam.ac.uk/directory/armr2@cam.ac.uk

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