Posted on 06/21/2021 10:10:47 AM PDT by DUMBGRUNT
While wind turbine and solar power platforms are beginning to take to the sea, another, more established form of power might also avoid hiking real estate costs.
A Copenhagen-based startup just raised funding to the sum of eight figures in Euros to begin construction of a new kind of cheap, flexible, portable, and unyieldingly safe nuclear reactor, according to a press release shared by the company, Seaborg Technologies.
...Called Compact Molten Salt Reactors, the new reactors are roughly the size of a shipping container,
(Excerpt) Read more at interestingengineering.com ...
“Yeah, what about the captains on cruise ships who don’t watch where they’re going?”
Siting requirements would require barriers to prevent this.
Terrestrial Energy looks good to me and they are very far along in getting Canadian and US certification. www.terrestrialenergy.com https://www.terrestrialenergy.com/technology/leading-the-way/
Conversation after a storm:
“Where the heck did that reactor go?”
More people have been killed from sitting in the front seat of Ted Kennedy’s car, than from radiation released from all of the nuclear accidents in the US. They can be made to be safe from damaging release of radiation, even in a crash.
You and I are on the same page, generally speaking. I just think that such a reactor would need different and more robust safety features to be sure they can survive the inevitable crashes.
This was proposed in 1978, Atlantic Generating Station
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atlantic_Nuclear_Power_Plant
https://www.ans.org/news/article-1239/the-atlantic-generating-station/
People are insane and bound to kill us all.
Can it be converted to irradiate fresh vegetables?
And once deception in the video is showing the big, round, “smoke stacks” emitting massive amounts of smoke, when in reality they are COOLING TOWERS and the “smoke” is actually harmless STEAM, just like that which comes from a tea kettle or a pot of boiling water.
They will be easy to spot due to all the U232 daughter product gamma radiation and dead people.
The reason we don’t use U233 in nuclear weapons.
Radiation would kill anyone working on them.
Scared me there for a second. I almost thought it was a “Kevmo” post about pit bulls and steam.
Molten salt reactors are a scientific and working reality since the 60s. The only reason they're not used is molten salt reactors do not breed weapons grade fissile material . That is why America has unsafe reactors, just so we could build thousands of nuclear weapons during the Cold War.
"MWt.During the 1960s, the USA developed the molten salt breeder reactor concept at the ORNL. It was the primary back-up option for the fast breeder reactor (cooled by liquid metal) and the small prototype 8 MWt Molten Salt Reactor Experiment (MSRE) operated at Oak Ridge over four years to 1969 (the MSR programme ran 1957-1976). In the first campaign (1965-68), uranium-235 tetrafluoride (UF4) enriched to 33% was dissolved in molten lithium, beryllium and zirconium fluorides at 600-650°C which flowed through a graphite moderator at ambient pressure. The fuel comprised about one percent of the fluid.*
Here is a source of the quotation. https://world-nuclear.org/information-library/current-and-future-generation/molten-salt-reactors.aspx
With no working prototype, all this outfit is producing is PR releases and a place to waste money.
Nuke and startup should not be in the same sentence....
Nothing about cost. Nothing about projected cost. Nothing about wild guess cost.
Russia has one of these operating offshore in the Arctic Sea where other energy options are not practical. It went into service in 2019. The concept works.
Moltenn salts reactors have been in the works for a long time. Sure do hope this means they are finally economical.
It would be extraordinarily cool if we could do a better job of distributing electrical generation.
I know! There’s abound to be a few heated cruisers on board!!
Would be huge sales to the Middle East (and Minneapolis).
—”Can it be converted to irradiate fresh vegetables?”
Yes and roast them at the same time!
All at about 40,000 pounds per eight-hour shift.
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