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Fission heated gas turbines address MIT Future of Nuclear challenges. Easier, straighter, less costly path

ByRod Adams

…uch as municipal utilities or manufacturing interests. scaryjello At least Kairos power wants to “co-fire” the natural gas combustion turbine with a radiator like was used for the MSRE. I love the idea of Brayton cycle using nuclear heat. Bearing lubrication is a major hurdle for “direct cycle” where reactor coolant passes through the core – the lube oil will soot-up the core and cement it together. High temperature magnetic bearings for a 10-ton…

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What exploded in Russia on Aug 8? My estimate is a (chemical) booster rocket for a nuclear powered cruise missile.

ByRod Adams

…aturing concepts as NuScale’s natural circulation light water reactors and Kairos‘s Floride High Temperature reactors. All of them grew out of university research lab projects and all of them have been steadily led by university professors with commercial instincts. There’s still a lengthy path to commercialization, but that doesn’t invalidate the effort or the potential. PS – All reasonably well developed nuclear energy concepts have a friend at…

Atomic Show #300 – Dr. Lindsay Krall, “Nuclear Waste from Small Modular Reactors”
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Atomic Show #300 – Dr. Lindsay Krall, “Nuclear Waste from Small Modular Reactors”

ByRod Adams

…y to build their science projects, but instead gobs of money are thrown at Kairos Power, General Fusion, Terra Power’s Nutria™, etc. No practiced engineer would imagine the basic economics and reliability of a SFR would be improved by adding a nitrate salt heat sink, or that a PBMR would become disruptive upon convolution with the MSR. This is wasteful government spending on bad ideas – cronyism – lack of creativity and evidence of systemic corrup…

NRC’s imposition of Aircraft Impact rule played a major role in Vogtle project delays and VC Summer failure
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NRC’s imposition of Aircraft Impact rule played a major role in Vogtle project delays and VC Summer failure

ByRod Adams

….nrc.gov/reactors/non-power/new-facility-licensing/msrr-acu/documents.html Kairos has also applied for a construction permit to build a small scale version of its molten salt-cooled, pebble bed reactor. Copenhagen Atomics (now a Nucleation Capital portfolio company) is operating an electrically heated molten salt prototype system to develop material performance and active component data for its 100 MWth heat source reactor. Progress in nuclear ten…

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