In less than 10,000 years it is less radioactive than the mined ore.
Posted on 05/04/2023 9:05:00 AM PDT by Red Badger
WASHINGTON, May 4 (Reuters) - U.S. company Westinghouse unveiled plans on Thursday for a small modular reactor to generate virtually emissions-free electricity that could replace coal plants or power water desalinization and other industries.
Rita Baranwal, the Westinghouse Electricity Co's top technology officer, said the reactor, dubbed AP300 for its planned 300 Megawatt capacity, will not use special fuels or liquid metal coolants unlike some other next-generation reactors.
It will be a smaller version of its AP1000 reactor, several of which are operating in China, and which are ramping up in Georgia at the Vogtle plant, after years of delay and billions of dollars over budget.
Despite hurdles for new nuclear, Baranwal was confident. "We've kept it simple, designed it on demonstrated and licensed technology, and I think that's one of the advantages that we have with this concept," she told Reuters in an interview. Westinghouse, owned by Brookfield Business Partners (BBU.N), plans to start constructing the reactor by 2030 and have it running by 2033.
Small modular reactors (SMR) are meant to fit new applications such as replacing shut coal plants and being located in more remote communities. President Joe Biden's administration believes that maintaining existing nuclear plants and developing next-generation reactors is crucial for its goal of decarbonizing the economy by 2050.
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“I want them small enough to power individual homes and cars. “
Engineering and economically impossible.
“a small modular reactor to generate virtually emissions-free electricity”
Emissions FREE???
It only emits the most deadly substance known to man, that won’t be safe for 100,000 years.
People are so stupid.
It emits Liberalism?..................
Late to the game and relying alot on mere scaled down versions of older nuclear power methods to try to gain speedier approvals and thwart much more holistic newer designs from getting investment and market shares. It is merely a scaled down light water reactor process, where fail safe safey relies on the combination of the cooling water not getting contaminated and if contaminated not leaking (Fukishima).
Much newer SMR (small nuclear reactor) designs do not use the light water method and do not have the issues that come with possible contaminated coolant water leaks.
LOL
Bait and switch.....
Support modular nukes as pretense for shutting down fossil fuel plants.
After fossil fuel plants are shut down, then prohibit the nukes and leave us with nothing.......Population Control tool # 19.
In less than 10,000 years it is less radioactive than the mined ore.
The Burkes most likely have two gas turbines.
GE sells gas turbines as large as 500 MW to utilities. That won’t fit in a destroyer.
“The Burkes most likely have two gas turbines.”
That is the total output of FOUR turbines.
Misleading headline - only plans revealed, not the actual thing.
Then I have little interest in them. The Dims have made it clear that they will eventually find reason to suppress energy sources for the grid. It's only a matter of them dreaming up an excuse.
Never happen...
The communists who rule us will never allow it...
Our masters absolutely require that the serfs be starving, cold in the winter, unable to travel anywhere not in walking distance (except for the children to travel 2-hours a day in school buses), and need impossible levels of night vision when the sun sets...
And the windfarm behind the solar panels a ways.
The anti-electricity woo-woos (you know who I mean) aren’t going to like this.
Oh yeah! I missed that. It’s way off in the distance!............
Finally ....good news on the energy front.
“For now.”
For never.
I could see a series of these powering desalination and pumping stations to bring clean water to the Colorado river from the Pacific. In similar fashion, water from the Gulf of Mexico could be pumped to lakes and reservoirs in New Mexico, Colorado, and western parts of the plains.
“I could see a series of these powering desalination and pumping stations to bring clean water to the Colorado river from the Pacific. “
Why pump it to the Colorado only be returned to California?
Use it in California and eliminate California’s draw on the Colorado.
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