You made the statement "We added extra layers — a separate hardwired control system". I assume you are referring to the secondary reactor protection system?
If so, I believe you may, like others, be falling for EDF's propaganda. If you read the ONR's Design Assessment, the ONR required a separate secondary hardwired system, similar to the one provided for Olkiluoto 3. Hardly adding an extra layer, merely repeated a previously used design.
It should also be noted that the only other PWR in the UK (Sizewell B) also has an independent secondary protection system.
"From a power planning point of view, AI data centers are interruptible loads, they can be paused during peak demand, helping balance the electrical grid."
There are two main types of data centers: AI-focused and non-AI (traditional) ones.
AI Data Centers power things like ChatGPT or image generators. They use special chips like GPUs or TPUs. These are very fast at thinking, but don’t need to reply instantly. Like baking a cake, it takes time, and that’s okay. They’re often built in remote places near wind farms to save energy. If they shut down, they can just restart from where they left off. No battery or generator is needed, like pausing a Netflix download and resuming later.
Non-AI Data Centers handle things like banking apps or online shopping. These need to be fast and always on, users expect instant results. They must be close to internet exchanges.
Example: ChatGPT’s AI center can wait a few seconds. Your banking app? Can’t. It needs a low-latency, always-on setup.
There is no reason to ever think that SMR’s or ANY form of nuclear energy is going to play its proper role in our future energy production- each and every plant will be emasculated in red tape, public enquiries and environmental impact studies- the ECO zealots will strangle it before it gets up on its hind legs and states that it is the ONLY energy source that is not intermittent outside of fossil fuels.
The ECO zealots want a agrarian society, back to subsistence farming and extreme poverty except for those chosen as “elites” who will hand out the work schedules whilst keeping the new peasants at arms length.
You made the statement "We added extra layers — a separate hardwired control system". I assume you are referring to the secondary reactor protection system?
If so, I believe you may, like others, be falling for EDF's propaganda. If you read the ONR's Design Assessment, the ONR required a separate secondary hardwired system, similar to the one provided for Olkiluoto 3. Hardly adding an extra layer, merely repeated a previously used design.
It should also be noted that the only other PWR in the UK (Sizewell B) also has an independent secondary protection system.
AI vs Non-AI Data Centers (Explained)
"From a power planning point of view, AI data centers are interruptible loads, they can be paused during peak demand, helping balance the electrical grid."
There are two main types of data centers: AI-focused and non-AI (traditional) ones.
AI Data Centers power things like ChatGPT or image generators. They use special chips like GPUs or TPUs. These are very fast at thinking, but don’t need to reply instantly. Like baking a cake, it takes time, and that’s okay. They’re often built in remote places near wind farms to save energy. If they shut down, they can just restart from where they left off. No battery or generator is needed, like pausing a Netflix download and resuming later.
Non-AI Data Centers handle things like banking apps or online shopping. These need to be fast and always on, users expect instant results. They must be close to internet exchanges.
Example: ChatGPT’s AI center can wait a few seconds. Your banking app? Can’t. It needs a low-latency, always-on setup.
See more https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dhqoTku-HAA
In all the talk about SMRs, what’s happened to Rolls Royce? Have they missed out?
Excellent timing for LD conference, where there is a policy up that needs an amendment to ensure we have the right policy for nuclear.
At last some sensible policy may result...
There is no reason to ever think that SMR’s or ANY form of nuclear energy is going to play its proper role in our future energy production- each and every plant will be emasculated in red tape, public enquiries and environmental impact studies- the ECO zealots will strangle it before it gets up on its hind legs and states that it is the ONLY energy source that is not intermittent outside of fossil fuels.
The ECO zealots want a agrarian society, back to subsistence farming and extreme poverty except for those chosen as “elites” who will hand out the work schedules whilst keeping the new peasants at arms length.