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?
“GAS heating water in order to spin a turbine / generator is the way.”
Nope! Spin the turbines with hot gas! Much simpler and better efficiency.
“Since I really looked into the dilemma of dealing with spent fuel rods I have been against this electricity generation system.”
Obviously you didn’t understand the technology ...
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/