…ry of the National Best Books 2008 Awards, sponsored by USA Book News. Publishers competing for this award ran the gamut from mainstreamers like Simon & Schuster, Tarcher/Penguin, HarperCollins, Hyperion, St. Martin’s, McGraw-Hill and John Wiley, to hundreds of independents. Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 1:03:27 — 21.8MB) Subscribe: RSS…
…rtup Proj. Mgr. for NSSS, Oconee Nuclear Station John R. (Grizz) Deal, CEO Hyperion Power Joseph Falcon, Past President, American Society of Mechanical Engineers Leo S. Gomez, Sandia National Laboratories, Retired William H. Hannum, Fellow, American Nuclear Society James E. Hansen, Member, National Academy of Sciences Joseph M. Hendrie, Former Chairman of the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission Jack I. Hope, Member, President’s Office of Science an…
…en salt cooled Pebble Bed High Temperature Reactor and lead bismuth cooled Hyperion reactors. Every once in a while, I jump in to the passionate discussions, not to take sides, but to remind the participants what the real battle should be – fission versus fire. Here is my most recent reminder letter – it received some favorable comments, so I thought it would be worth sharing with a wider audience. Rickover’s observation about paper reactors needs…
…ors, please visit some or all of the following articles: NuScale Power and Hyperion Power Generation – Nuclear Power Systems That Are Not “Extra Large” More small reactor discussions Small reactors have NRC’s attention Small reactors seek market share If you are interested in finding out more about career opportunities at Entergy Nuclear visit nuclearenergycareers.com Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 37:26 — 12.9MB) Subscribe: RSS…
…While searching for more information about Hyperion Power Generation – trying to keep abreast of developments at a potential competitor – I ran across Energy Fallout. It is a relatively new blog with a nice look but few posts. However, two of the posts are about nuclear power, so it is worth watching and perhaps supporting with an encouraging comment or two….
…rket for central station power plants. I am referring in particular to the Hyperion Power Generation project and the Adams Atomic Engine project. There is certainly still a lot of debate and concern. The energy market is a very large business with plenty of competition that will fight for slices of market share. Many competitors do not like the huge advantages that nuclear technology brings to the table; it is difficult for wind, solar, oil, coal,…
…ly focused on small nuclear power plants already funded with risk capital (Hyperion and NuScale), with at least one more with some real prospects for a significant first round of funding, and the fact that there are at least 100 projects in the works around the world where real businessmen who understand numbers have made a different computation about the value of nuclear power than he has. He brought up the Keystone Study and the MIT Future of Nu…
…shared than many people in the nuclear industry imagine. I have watched as Hyperion and NuScale have received initial funding rounds from venture capitalists, found indications of renewed interest in small systems by Russian companies, and had the invigorating experience of being contacted by some people with access to large pots of investment dollars who want to hear more about how Adams Atomic Engines, Inc. might compete with those efforts. We c…
…base-load reactor, and put it down where there’s no grid to support it. A smaller design could be useful in a remote setting.” NuScale, Hyperion and others (grin) are showing the way….
…ensive. The really exciting thing is that there are several start-ups like Hyperion, NuScale and at least two more in stealth mode that are focused on build small fission power plants as direct replacements for oil and gas in distributed applications. Thorium is great, but it is just another expansion on the theme. The introduction of thorium 232-uranium 233 fuel cycles as part of the mix does not negate the value of uranium as a heat source any m…
…reva, Northrop Grumman, FPL, Entergy, Shaw Group, Westinghouse, McDermott, Hyperion and NuScale. They also include Bill Gates, Warren Buffett, Rod Adams (forgive my vanity in putting my name there, but heck, as a percentage of net worth, I am up there on the list), John Deal, Paul Lorenzini, Jose Reyes and George Chapman. While no ground has been broken – yet – there are a number of signed Engineering, Procurement, and Construction (EPC) contracts…
…the development and commercialization of reactors like the 70 MW (thermal) Hyperion Power Module, NuScale’s 45 MWe natural circulation light water reactor, the LiftrTM, and the Adams EngineTM, as well as the third generation light water reactors that have improved passive safety, fewer components, and more robust containment structures. The selection of John Holdren as chief science advisor to the President provides one more reason for believing t…
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