Here’s a much more serious early adopter from the same 1954 REA news.
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The Chairman, General Manager, and staff members of the Atomic Energy Commission met recently with the Administrator and staff members of the Rural Electrification Administration, the Administrator’s policy advisory committee and the committee on atomic energy of the National Rural Electric Coop Association.
The REA group pointed out that this agency and its cooperative borrowers wish to follow closely the developing application of atomic energy to economic power production and to make available this new source of electrical energy to the farms of America.
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REA and the cooperatives are not in a position financially to assume part of the costs of development of nuclear power reactors. The cooperatives and REA, however, want to keep in closest touch and gain the widest possible knowledge from the individual development projects now underway for portable and fixed package power plants for the Army, and for demonstration projects trying out other designs for small and medium-sized fixed central station power plants.
In the event such plants are constructed of a size suitable for rural electrification, REA requested that consideration be given to their location in REA areas.
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In 2010 modular reactors were close to practical use, but then the can was kicked again. It appears that fake development is still going on, but no commercial use yet here in the 4th World. We’ll never get there. Here in the 4th World nothing advances, nothing changes.
Needless to say, Russia and India and China, the new 1st World, are already producing and USING modular reactors for real electricity.
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Later…. Robert Bryce reports: (1) Counties are solidly rejecting new wind “generators”. (2) US and UK governments are steering back toward big nuclear in principle, saying openly that nuclear IS clean energy. That’s a welcome shift of rhetoric. But no real action yet, no changes in the endless “licensing” crap. (3) The fake manufacturers of modular, which are still the same names I was discussing back in 2010, are laying off employees, not growing. Probably because they were solely dependent on QE and VC money. We’ll have to import the modulars from China like we import every other fucking thing.
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