Posted on 01/07/2015 12:10:03 PM PST by ckilmer
Today, the United States Department of Energy announced that its Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) in Tennessee is partnering with Canadian nuclear company Terrestrial Energy Inc. (TEI) to assist with TEI’s new Integral Molten Salt Reactor (IMSR). The engineering blueprint stage for this GenIV reactor should be reached in two years. The reactor should come online in less than ten.
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Actually the Indians and the Chinese have active LFTRs, and have had them for the last 20 years.
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No they don’t.
The Chinese saw a scientific article on lftr’s four years ago and came over to the USA and picked up the designs oak ridge. they have invested about 600 million in the program. They hope to have a prototype in 2021.
The indians have been working with thorium but not msr lftr designs.
The other question is why did the DOE choose a canadian company since there are three or four US companies currently working on msr designs.
I wonder why the DOE chose a canadian company when there are already a couple US companies working on this.
With the Chicago Mob running the show, you just follow the money trail.
I’m personally not knowledgeable in this case, but I’d bet there’s a Democrat crony deal in it.
“This has been around since 1953. This design was originally intended for submarines. LFTR (Liquide Flourine Thorium Reactors) were cleaner, smaller, and safer.”
Different design.
Actually, it does, it just isn't very abundant. The long-lived form of plutonium, 244Pu, has been detected in some samples of pitchblende, lunar soils, meteorites, and some of the uranium deposits associated with the Oklo fossil reactors in Gabon. It's half-life (80 million years) is just long enough so that some of the primordial plutonium is still around, given the age of the formation of the planets in the solar system from the primordial nebula. Naturally-occurring plutonium can only be formed by nucleosynthesis in supernovae.
Ask her to call you jaded. It is a much more elegant word.
Thanks
“Elegant?”
Me?
(now that’s a novel thought!)
We call Greenies ‘Watermelons’...green on the outside and red on the inside.
Me?
Not you
The WORD
Tisk
Some peoples children!
IF your wife is going to insult you, she may as well do it with CLASS!
Apparently he just completed his M.S. in Nuclear Engineering at the University of Tennessee-Knocksville, according to his LinkedIn page.
If it turns out anything like the Fish carburetor, you can bet it’ll be a big hit
Did he learn how to spell Knoxville while learning nuclear physics?
Well he’s still being talked about in those types of circles according to a quick Google search, last month in fact. If he was focused on obtaining a Master’s Degree it’s possible that he’s just been busy.
Pthhhhffttt!!!
Apparently he just completed his M.S. in Nuclear Engineering at the University of Tennessee-Knocksville, according to his LinkedIn page.
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If that’s the case then Sorenson is not in the hunt.
It looks like an interesting concept.
However, I wonder about the safety issues. Most of the nuclear accidents occurred because of design flaws that were completely obvious in hindsight. For instance, the Fukushima plant was quite able to withstand the earthquake, and was damaged but contained afterwards. However, the generators that ran the cooling system were placed on the ground, below sea level, so when the sea wall failed and water rushed in, the generators drowned. Clearly, their placement could have been better thought out.
People do not have a good track record of anticipating problems that they have never seen before.
That said, it would be nice to see some new nuclear plants go on-line. The “renewable” energy schemes just don’t work all that well.
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