Nuclear and Renewables

I've promised to discuss claims made about wind , solar, battery storage,etc, but I thought that I'd do another on Nuclear before moving on. I'm not an expert on this tech at all, but I'm definetely wanting to learn more when companies are promoting decentralized uses for it. I recently (today) saw new info on micro reactors. I checked the company website and here is some of that info.

It's not new tech, They are using a design tested by the guv many years ago. I don't know why it wasn't adopted. Maybe it wasn't cost effective back then. Maybe the guv is slow walking things so the many companies benefitting from the current business as usual model are not affected (probably not). :)

About the size of a ski lodge, with production rated at 15 megawatts. This is the smallest micro reactor that I've seen (I'm guessing they can be made a lot smaller). As a farmer, I would love a smaller scale one of these... In this case , an oil company is in talks to use these in remote locations.

Tracy is a good one to follow for info on the energy business. So who knows, maybe we'll see break throughs yet on this tech (even if 60 years late ) :). Sometimes the people who say things can't be done, get passed by people doing it.

Last of all, (and maybe most important) it appears this design can use used reactor fuel, and it doesn't produce high grade fuel that can be used for other things. I would think that might greatly simplify the regulatory process, but it still looks like several years before we'll know anything definite. Isn't 60 years enough? :)

edit- I should mention that I wrote an opinion piece years ago when the fukashima disaster happened in Japan (it probably can still be found online). It was pro distributed generation and not friendly to nuclear. If this micro scale nuclear design will really shut down safely in emegency situations,and can be done in a cost efective manner, I may need to update some past opinions. edit 2 - I didn't realize that Oklo was backed by Sam Altman, so it seems that Oklo is probably more interested in data center sized reactors than than the micro size than I'm interested in ... wanted to mention that.