Gee, I wonder why? 
Cant wait until 50,000 unprotected little nuke reactor start glowing the suburbs.
Posted on 02/11/2021 2:19:08 PM PST by DUMBGRUNT
MINI NUCLEAR REACTORS OFFER PROMISE OF CHEAPER, CLEAN POWER Reactor makers are pitching smaller, modular systems that produce limitless emissions-free energy—but they may not be an easy sell
The pitch: small modular reactors, or SMRs, that can be housed in compact containment structures and operate safely with less shielding and oversight. SMRs could allow power plants to shed their huge hourglass-shaped cooling towers and, in some designs, the reactors would be immersed in water to prevent overheating.
Utilities could retrofit existing power plants by substituting climate-friendly SMRs for aging, climate-unfriendly coal- or gas-fired burners, boosters say. SMRs could also power municipal heating systems, turn water to hydrogen for fuel or electrify remote locations, all without any emissions.
Last fall, the Energy Department awarded $210 million to 10 projects to develop technologies for SMRs and beyond, as part of its Advanced Reactor Demonstration Program. The agency had already awarded $400 million to various projects since 2014 “to accelerate the development and deployment of SMRs,” it said in a statement on NuScale’s safety evaluation last September.
GE’s second offering, a system now in development with nuclear startup TerraPower LLC, replaces water with molten salt, similar to what’s used in some advanced solar-power arrays. Dubbed Natrium, the system runs hotter than water-cooled reactors but at lower pressure and with passive cooling, which eliminates piping and electrical systems while improving safety,
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Such a deal!
Also available here:
https://archive.vn/xocQe#selection-363.6-371.15
It’s smart. Honestly, if we wanted to lower air pollution, the best thing we could do is mini-reactors in marine shipping. Cargo ship pollution is WAY bigger than all automotive pollution put together, but no one wants to talk about that.
The public has been too brainwashed to accept anything with ‘nuclear’ in the name. The peasants will freeze in their huts while Bill Gates has his own reactor.
Faster, please.
Fusion energy is only thirty years away.
The Technology for Smmall reactors maybe available.But the leftwing anti nucleaar idiots would be against them from day one.
A battalion of Security troops would have to be stationed there to protect them.
I’m all for it.Though I don’t see Joe Biden,The imposter in Chief pushing for those small nuclear reactors even though they’d be much more productive then windmills or solar panels.
We should have started this 50 years ago. If we can fit a reactor into a sub or an aircraft carrier, we can have them for power production in general use.
You can put ‘em close to the point where energy is consumed rather than having to pipe the power in via transmission lines.
A little to big to install in the 100 x 300 foot power plant that my little town is closing down, but the right size to go on the outskirts of town. It would have been nice if the 2d article you linked to had provided the size on the ground needed for it.
Gee, I wonder why?
Cant wait until 50,000 unprotected little nuke reactor start glowing the suburbs.
This pitch has been round for decades; sounds great until the karens, the condo associations, the busybodies, the environmentalists put the kabash on it once again - better to suffer in the dark than glow in the dark they say.
Can’t wait until Antifa begins to play with unprotected little nuke reactors ...
This is:
Serfs didn’t own the firewood they chopped to keep from freezing to death in ancient and medieval times. If we are to return to kind of a Super Feudalism, under the Trillionaire Aristocracy, then we will own no reactors, either.
Exactly - it was the movie that shut down the industry. The accident at Three-Mile Island was a minor event due to the safety protocols in place. The movie and the event occurred at about the same time, I don’t recall which was first.
Fusion energy was “thirty years away” 50 years ago.
“Fusion is only 30 years away”.
~Abraham Lincoln
Piss on nuclear power ....GAS heating water in order to spin a turbine / generator is the way. Since I really looked into the dilemma of dealing with spent fuel rods I have been against this electricity generation system. It doesn’t get much easier than boiling water to make steam than with a gas / natural gas flame and a boiler.....K.I.S.S. rule .....I have always been amazed at how much natural gas is burned off while drilling...I do welcome any Freepers to quell my angst about spent fuel rods and the radioactivity life they have?
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