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Small Nuclear Reactors - Natrium
You Tube ^ | 24 June 2021 | Prof David Ruzic

Posted on 07/04/2021 7:44:36 AM PDT by DUMBGRUNT

This video tells about the new exciting sodium-cooled, high-assay-low-enrichment-uranium (HALEU) fueled small nuclear reactor that was one of the winners of the DOE Advanced Reactor Demonstration Program competition and will be built over the next few years. It utilizes molten-salt storage of the heat generated by the nuclear reactor, so it can "follow-the-load". This type of system could be the future of nuclear power. The demonstration reactor is planned to be constructed at a retired coal power plant site in Wyoming, so the electrical generation equipment can be re-used.

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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Chit/Chat; Education; Science
KEYWORDS: infotainment
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Yes, I'm easily amused and find this informative and somewhat entertaining.

If you made it this far?... Prof Ruzic has many worthwhile videos. His food irradiation video is fun with strawberries.

1 posted on 07/04/2021 7:44:36 AM PDT by DUMBGRUNT
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I’m still saving up for an F-15.


2 posted on 07/04/2021 7:53:26 AM PDT by Salamander (I Ride By Night And I Travel In Fear, That In This Darkness, I Will Disappear....)
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To: DUMBGRUNT

With this rig, will it be possible to bypass ERCOT?


3 posted on 07/04/2021 8:03:54 AM PDT by ptsal (Vote R.E.D. >>>Remove Every Democrat ***)
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To: DUMBGRUNT; Salamander; gundog; Gamecock; SaveFerris; PROCON; Rebelbase
I guess that's a kind of nuclear reactor. Does it work like a hamster?


4 posted on 07/04/2021 8:08:04 AM PDT by Larry Lucido (Donate! Don't just post clickbait!)
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To: Larry Lucido

HALEU

They misspelled SABLE.


5 posted on 07/04/2021 8:09:28 AM PDT by Larry Lucido (Donate! Don't just post clickbait!)
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To: Salamander

—”I’m still saving up for an F-15.”

This guy recommends you purchase from a country that is hot and dry, like Australia. Low rust!

https://www.thedrive.com/the-war-zone/32869/this-man-owns-the-worlds-most-advanced-private-air-force-after-buying-46-f-a-18-hornets


6 posted on 07/04/2021 8:09:48 AM PDT 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: Larry Lucido

Well, it otter.


7 posted on 07/04/2021 8:10:02 AM PDT by Salamander (I Ride By Night And I Travel In Fear, That In This Darkness, I Will Disappear....)
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To: Salamander

Rats!


8 posted on 07/04/2021 8:10:20 AM PDT by Larry Lucido (Donate! Don't just post clickbait!)
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To: DUMBGRUNT

Wow.

Everything in Australia IS trying to kill us.

/can barely make a decent paper airplane


9 posted on 07/04/2021 8:11:44 AM PDT by Salamander (I Ride By Night And I Travel In Fear, That In This Darkness, I Will Disappear....)
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To: DUMBGRUNT

If it isn’t made with Thorium, then it is a stupid choice. 5X more Thorium, the US has most of it, and no waste - at all. You can build a plant in a residential neighborhood, make it look like a home, and the only way you’d know it was a LFTR is the steam coming out of the chimney.


10 posted on 07/04/2021 8:12:15 AM PDT by RinaseaofDs
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To: Larry Lucido
If I get ZOTted for this, it's all your fault


11 posted on 07/04/2021 8:13:04 AM PDT by Salamander (I Ride By Night And I Travel In Fear, That In This Darkness, I Will Disappear....)
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To: Salamander

:)


12 posted on 07/04/2021 8:16:20 AM PDT by Larry Lucido (Donate! Don't just post clickbait!)
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To: DUMBGRUNT
and will be built over the next few years.

Sure it will. How about next couple of decades.

13 posted on 07/04/2021 8:18:49 AM PDT by Boiler Plate ("Why be difficult, when with just a little more work, you can be impossible" Mom)
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To: DUMBGRUNT

The demonstration reactor is planned to be constructed at a retired coal power plant site in Wyoming, so the electrical generation equipment can be re-used.


That common sense approach adds some credibility................


14 posted on 07/04/2021 8:19:40 AM PDT by PeterPrinciple (Thinking Caps are no longer being issued but there must be a warehouse full of them somewhere.)
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To: Larry Lucido

Shameless instigator!

:D


15 posted on 07/04/2021 8:22:54 AM PDT by Salamander (I Ride By Night And I Travel In Fear, That In This Darkness, I Will Disappear....)
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—”With this rig, will it be possible to bypass ERCOT?”

If you and a Texas-size group of wealthy friends pony up about one billion dollars... Might be good to go in Texas?

But you guys are going to be looking for a return on your investment.
For that, you will need to sell over the grid.
That is where the tax will bite you.


16 posted on 07/04/2021 8:24:35 AM PDT 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

this sounds like the bill gates design.

The real future of small nuclear reactors is being done over seas. These are nuclear reactors that will be sited on barges and towed to their sites. They’ll be mass produced and create electricity for .02-.03@kwh—for starters. What they’ll do is enable vertical farms that are 100 stories tall to be built. Cities will become food independent. The demand for these reactors will be enormous.

The best of these reactors will be thorium based. There is currently one thorium reactor being tested in the US national labs. But when it passes tests—it will be produced in Indonesia—where a factory for mass production is already started.

I don’t have a lot of confidence in Bill Gates.


17 posted on 07/04/2021 8:25:14 AM PDT by ckilmer
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To: DUMBGRUNT

Bookmark


18 posted on 07/04/2021 8:27:50 AM PDT by aquila48 (Do not let them make you care! Guilting you is how they control you. )
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To: Larry Lucido

—” Does it work like a hamster?”

That’s a fake hamster if I ever saw one!

Some kind of commie trick!!!!

Here it is Independence Day, and a commie rat shows up on my screen!!!


19 posted on 07/04/2021 8:29:37 AM PDT 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: Larry Lucido

—”They misspelled SABLE.”

NOT A SABLE!!!
IT IS A COMMIE RAT!
AND A DIRTY-LOOKING ONE TOO!


20 posted on 07/04/2021 8:31:17 AM PDT by DUMBGRUNT (("The enemy has overrun us. We are blowing up everything. Vive la France!"Dien Bien Phu last message)
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