One of the ideas I've heard behind these smaller reactors is that since you have say 10 small reactors instead of 1 big reactor, you can decrease the overall output by just shutting down a few of the smaller reactors.
It's absolutely not perfect but it's an improvement.
And should a country end up many of these small reactors, nuclear could actually be quite flexible. The reactors could be shut down and started up on schedules such that each morning, some reactors that were shut down are coming online and in the evening, some of the reactors that were online are shutting down.
It's absolutely not perfect but it's an improvement.
And should a country end up many of these small reactors, nuclear could actually be quite flexible. The reactors could be shut down and started up on schedules such that each morning, some reactors that were shut down are coming online and in the evening, some of the reactors that were online are shutting down.