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…of several times 100 plants in the next 20 years. The leaders at NuScale, Hyperion, General Atomics and Toshiba would probably agree that a goal of a thousand of plants in 20 years is not out of bounds. (Disclosure: As the founder of Adams Atomic Engines, Inc., I have a vested interest in trying to make this prediction a reality.) This jobs producing effort will be made so much easier when active support for nuclear power becomes a bipartisan iss…

…the order of 10-50 MWe, more like the units being developed at NuScale or Hyperion. The difference here is that Babcock and Wilcox is not a small, venture funded outfit starting from scratch, but a major unit of a large, international energy company with more than 50 years of experience in building major nuclear plant components and managing large nuclear research and development sites for the US DOE. Babcock and Wilcox’s heritage includes partic…

…ing the personal computer revolution. For the people behind companies like Hyperion, NuScale, and TerraPower, I say – Hurray, but keep moving forward. There are some established companies like Babcock and Wilcox, who also seems to “get it”. Their recently announced 125 MWe modular mPower™ reactor seems to have some analogies with the IBM PC development in 1981 after several years of watching the response to what the Homebrew guys had accomplished….

…actor pass by and few major ports that have not hosted one. Companies like Hyperion, NuScale, Toshiba and now Babcock and Wilcox (with their mPower that is founded on experience gained as a supplier to the US Navy) have obviously recognized the same thirst for reliable, distributed power systems that we have found. They are investing large sums of money into simplified designs that rely on passive safety measures to reduce complexity and technical…

…ion and poke at those “newcomers” like Bill Gates and John (Grizz) Deal of Hyperion. They advise caution and believe that the First Nuclear Age came to halt partially out of hype and over enthusiasm. They are certain that the “new” ideas like smaller, factory producible fission power systems are doomed to fail and that they will inherently cost just as much to license as more complex, site constructed central station power plants. They get concern…

…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…

…power that could be generated by a 20 – 25 MWe nuclear plant – say one the Hyperion Power Module or perhaps two units of the Toshiba 4S. The project was delayed for more than a year partially due to bad weather (on second thought, that might not be just a first of a kind issue for off-shore wind farms). The projected total cost will be $357 million, approximately $85 million more than the initial estimate. Considering the size of the array and its…

…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….