Small Modular Nuclear Reactor for cheap electricity and zero carbon.

Alright, had a read up on some of the newer nuclear options. Copenhagen Atomics: thermal solution only. This means that in order to produce power you'd need a steam turbine plant (or some other working heat transfer fluid such as carbon dioxide or helium). Basically a replica of Tynes Bay. Under ideal conditions you would be able to extract 30% of the thermal energy as electrical energy. Base load here is 60MW, so that's 200MWth to match. No true costs but the steam plant alone would be $100 million plus before the nuclear component. Terra Power: currently experimental. No proofs of concept, although it should work. Current development costs have exceeded $1 billion and no product as yet. Moltex: also experimental. Very coy about design specs. No budget figures released as yet. They have passed the first vendor review hurdle, though. The problem is cost. Any small nuclear implementation is approximately a billion dollars. You have to sell a lot of electricity to recoup that. Belco generates only 250 million kWh a year or so. Twenty year payback would require sales of electricity to the grid at roughly 50% more than the current levelled cost, and that's before staffing and other costs, much less the likely additional development costs beyond the plant itself.

Wind mills do not work and is not worth building. I'm not sure about this reactor thing, but why get if it doesn't work and is way too expensive. Does it give radiation to the household?

"Renewables are intermittent and therefore cannot fill this role." So why are we looking at building a wind farm with an estimated cost between $250 and $450 MILLION? The RA is spending MILLIONS of tax dollars on consulting for the wind farm that produced a report that says we need to spend $4 million more for "derisking" to entice developers. Say what? And the kicker is, the consultants will not give an estimate on the Estimated Consumer kWh Rate (ECkR), the rate BELCO would charge to consumers - us poor folk! No doubt the cost is astronomical and higher than our current rates. Bermuda’s current electric rates are right up there with, if not higher than, green #1 Germany and green #2 Denmark. "Models are suggesting that they will deliver electricity for $0.04 per KWH." That is way under the wind farm's fudgeit estimate of between $0.17/kWh and $0.32/kWh. But neither adds in other costs such as investor return, BELCO's cost of having generators on standby, markup, grid connection, load balancing, etc. Again, what is the Estimated Consumer kWh Rate (ECkR)? Somehow I am not seeing BELCO lowering rates, it has overheard and employees to pay. Investors want a guaranteed return for the project. But compared to the cost of a wind farm, I am open to seeking alternatives other than a wind farm. Bring on the promoters! Have vendors come to Bermuda and present their products in person, by video, and by PowerPoint. We need more visitors.