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MINI NUCLEAR REACTORS OFFER PROMISE OF CHEAPER, CLEAN POWER
WSJ ^ | 11 Feb 2021 | DANIEL MICHAELS

Posted on 02/11/2021 2:19:08 PM PST by DUMBGRUNT

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To: mythenjoseph

No quelling required, for there are NO spent fuel rods.

TerraPower uses a small amount of enriched uranium at the beginning of the process (see slides at the bottom of the post), but then the nuclear reactor runs on the waste product and can make and consume its own fuel. The benefits are that the reactor doesn’t have to be refueled or have its waste removed until the end of life of the reactor (theoretically a couple hundred years). Using waste uranium reduces the amount of waste in the overall nuclear life cycle, and extends the available supply of the world’s uranium for nuclear by many times.
https://gigaom.com/2010/02/15/terrapower-how-the-travelling-wave-nuclear-reactor-works/


41 posted on 02/11/2021 3:33:41 PM PST by DUMBGRUNT ("The enemy has overrun us. We are blowing up everything. Vive la France!"Dien Bien Phu last message.)
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To: Boiler Plate

Please learn about Molten Salt Reactors. https://www.marketwatch.com/press-release/molten-salt-reactor-market-2021-latest-report-covering-key-vendors-price-trends-gross-margin-influence-of-covid-19-and-forecast-to-2025-2021-02-11

For some reason they leave out www.terrestrialenergy.com they are the furthest along in development. https://www.terrestrialenergy.com/technology/competitive/


42 posted on 02/11/2021 3:36:27 PM PST by WellyP (question!)
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To: DUMBGRUNT

One for each house in a 8 foot square. plug it in. 20 years later get a new one.


43 posted on 02/11/2021 3:38:24 PM PST by kvanbrunt2
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To: Dr. Sivana

The idea was to provide a plug and play solution for remote areas (e.g. Alaska). I never heard what happened with it.

The September 11 attacks made it a security nightmare.
No mention of security requirements in the article?

Gone but not forgotten.
Very Small Reactor MoveluX

https://www.toshiba-energy.com/en/nuclearenergy/rd/safety-reactor.htm


44 posted on 02/11/2021 3:40:43 PM PST by DUMBGRUNT ("The enemy has overrun us. We are blowing up everything. Vive la France!"Dien Bien Phu last message.)
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To: DUMBGRUNT

Nuclear power is never going to solve our energy needs. The future of energy is unicorn fart/moonbeam pellets burning in a reactor made of unobtainium!


45 posted on 02/11/2021 3:40:57 PM PST by wildcard_redneck ( COVID lockdowns are the Establishment's attack on the middle class and our Republic)
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To: dljordan

Bill Gates owns a large share of TerraPower. He is Chairman of the Board.


46 posted on 02/11/2021 3:44:06 PM PST by webheart (COVID was not worth the economic misery that it took to keep me from getting it for 7 months..)
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To: TexasGator

No I do not and I will be the first to admit it...Thank you .


47 posted on 02/11/2021 3:54:58 PM PST by mythenjoseph
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To: DUMBGRUNT

Computer simulations stated this MIGHT be operational in 10 years in 2010.....real world application has not been achieved has it?


48 posted on 02/11/2021 3:58:15 PM PST by mythenjoseph
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To: Reily; mythenjoseph
"Generation 3 & soon 4 reactors produce very little waste.

Molten salt reactors are very safe and can consume and get energy from nuclear waste. Molten Salt Reactors - World Nuclear Association

The problem with nuclear waste is linked to Americas use of breeder reactors to generate fissile material for nuclear weapons. A breeder reactor is a nuclear reactor that generates more fissile material than it consumes. Breeder reactors achieve this because their neutron economy is high enough to create more fissile fuel than they use, by irradiation of a fertile material, such as uranium-238 or thorium-232 that is loaded into the reactor along with fissile fuel. Utilities generate electricity to sell, the federal government buys the enriched fuel to reprocess into nuclear weapons. and Americans live with the unclear waste.

49 posted on 02/11/2021 4:00:51 PM PST by wildcard_redneck ( COVID lockdowns are the Establishment's attack on the middle class and our Republic)
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To: wildcard_redneck

Yes I know.


50 posted on 02/11/2021 4:01:57 PM PST by Reily
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To: TexasGator

The staff will be less but not proportionally. Same with construction costs. After building these things for 60 years, never underestimate the governments ability to screw things up. See Vogtle 3 and 4. It has now been 8 years and no end in sight.

https://www.neimagazine.com/news/newsmore-progress-for-vogtle-34-8415144


51 posted on 02/11/2021 4:06:48 PM PST by Boiler Plate ("Why be difficult, when with just a little more work, you can be impossible" Mom)
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To: WellyP

My daughter worked on these with MPR. Right up there with Fusion. the original Seawolf had molten sodium reactors. They were quietly “Deep Sixed”.
They keep talking about this and then..........nothing.


52 posted on 02/11/2021 4:09:30 PM PST by Boiler Plate ("Why be difficult, when with just a little more work, you can be impossible" Mom)
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To: DUMBGRUNT

SNR should be built to utilize Thorium instead of Uranium.


53 posted on 02/11/2021 4:15:03 PM PST by taxcontrol (You are entitled to your opinion, no matter how wrong it is.)
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To: The MAGA-Deplorian

Before making ignorant statements perhaps you could learn a little bit about the subject.


54 posted on 02/11/2021 4:20:30 PM PST by webheart (COVID was not worth the economic misery that it took to keep me from getting it for 7 months..)
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To: webheart

Of course.


55 posted on 02/11/2021 4:44:21 PM PST by dljordan (Slouching towards Woketopia)
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To: The MAGA-Deplorian

No thanx. Besides, anyone with nefarious intentions could make a mess of things.


56 posted on 02/11/2021 5:04:45 PM PST by servantboy777
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To: DUMBGRUNT

LOL! We gone over this before! What could possibly go wrong? Your naybor decides to turn off your cooling water? Dumps sugar in your reactor?


57 posted on 02/11/2021 5:12:24 PM PST by SgtHooper (If you remember the 60's, YOU WEREN'T THERE!)
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To: ETCM

LMAO!


58 posted on 02/11/2021 5:14:44 PM PST by SgtHooper (If you remember the 60's, YOU WEREN'T THERE!)
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To: Still Thinking

I keep forgetting how few freepers get sarcasm.


59 posted on 02/11/2021 5:22:33 PM PST by Born to Conserve
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To: DUMBGRUNT

America’s enemies, and their useful idiot supporters, hate nuclear.


60 posted on 02/11/2021 5:51:59 PM PST by Basket_of_Deplorables (Convention Of States is our only hope now!)
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