Search Results for: LFTR

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TEDx New England – Nuclear entrepreneurs aiming to use waste for fuel

…would be possible and this fissile fuel could be used to start new Thorium LFTRs which, once started, would be self sustaining and produce as much U-233 as they burn up on a sustainable basis as long as you were willing to supply a small stream of ultra cheap non-enriched Thorium to the LFTR breeding blanket. Using the WAMSR ultimately gets rid of the “waste” problem and produces some energy in a one time use. Segregating the “waste”, extracting t…

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Stockpile of 20% enriched uranium will enable advanced reactor deployment

…his case would still be HEU, and it is absurd to consider fuel salt from a LFTR to be a diversion risk. The core of a LFTR is about the safest place on earth for such material, and shortly after reactor startup, it is absolutely worthless for weapons. Instead of defining an arbitrary LEU/HEU boundary, legislation should be focused on the safe use of this highly valuable resource. Perhaps the distinction made sense when enriched uranium was sold to…

Westinghouse Sold AP1000 Technology Developed With American Taxpayer Assistance to China More than Three Years Ago

…, you truly are the best among us in both your zeal and knowledge on Gen-4 LFTR. Robert Steinhaus I would suggest that a man who takes time during his honeymoon to argue the case for (Thorium) Molten Salt Reactors is an exceptional advocate of the Technology. Charles, you truly are the best among us in both your zeal and knowledge of Gen-4 LFTR. Richard Kulisz It amazes me sometimes how provincial you are. You’re talking as if maximizing money and…

Adams Engine – Goal is cheap, ultra low emission fuel coupled to cheap machinery
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Adams Engine – Goal is cheap, ultra low emission fuel coupled to cheap machinery

…ve lower pumping cost, so the economic gain is much higher for reheat in a LFTR than in a direct cycle gas cooled reactor. This is also true for IFR, but much less strongly so, due to the lower achievable temperatures, and the lower heat capacity of sodium (but on the plus side, there are less issues with sodium freezing than with salts freezing which means a less restricted design space). Cyril R. Regarding the open cycle, it is possible but less…

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Use all the electricity you want; we’ll make more

…te. “To converting all 572 existing USA coal fire plants to the Super Safe LFTR Nuclear Reactors are maybe a good way to start?” There are no large LFTR nuclear plants generating electricity anywhere in the world. Coal fired power plants use a different steam system and turbines than a nuclear power plant. “… just look at Germany who increase even there dirtiest brown coal, as a consequence of “risking a tsunami”, that shut down 8 reactors.” Tsuna…

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Trump Budget Blueprint For DOE Will Revive Yucca Conflict. Does Little To Enable Nuclear

…etting rid of the long-lived LWR waste problem and simultaneously starting LFTRs. Nothing under said program would prevent the use of high-enrichment uranium to start other LFTRs much more directly.  The only issue seems to be keeping the U-238 fraction down enough that you don’t run into problems of insufficient neutron economy.  Maybe Bob Hargraves can tell us what the limit is on that. Stephen Duval The Trump nuclear budget seems to be an unmit…

IPCC working group III recommends nearly quadrupling nuclear energy

…That is why they wanted IFR. IFR would be make-work for GE & Westinghouse. LFTR fuel manufacturing costs are trivial. LFTR would compete BOTH with the nuclear & oil corporate establishment. […] Al Gore claims CO2 is big crisis, but then turns around and says we dont need nuclear to address it […] You are a climate change denier too? What is this? MySpace? […] You need to stop making excuses for Democrats. They have harmed nuclear power immeasura…

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Energy versus Power – Energy delivered rapidly equals power

…tent of your “knowledge” of pebble bed reactors? I rest my case. IFR, PBR, LFTR, Traveling wave…whats the next big thing? Thats all that matters, the next big thing. Rod Adams @starvinglion I have a pretty solid background in pebble bed reactors. http://www.atomicengines.com/ and http://adamsengines.blogspot.com/ both contain examples of my research in that field. Dave’s summary was pretty good, especially within the limitations of space and tim…

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The battle for the atom is heating up again

…t is the intellectual excuse for not supporting the development of Thorium LFTR plants? It’s a lot like the argument a hundred years ago about whether the power grid should be DC (Edison’s choice) or AC (Tesla’s ) It seems obvous now: what took them so long? shawn disney The present educational level of the US is not encouraging ,about intellectual arguments. But I have to say, that the experts are disappointing as well. Granted that LWRs have an…

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Reactions to Macfarlane nomination for Chairman of NRC

…are projecting a bit here. Yes, the Chinese have an important well funded LFTR project. The goal, for now, is a 5MW prototype by 2016 (plus or minus). Their actual *plan* is the Fast Breeder Reactor which they see over 1000GWs of by 2100. Assuming the LFTR and, the HTR project now being built, get going, that number might lower to include these advanced reactors as well. Blubba There are only two options: 1 – Both Sviniki and McFarlane get confir…

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Musing about resilient power systems – natural gas, NGL (propane) and nuclear

…w this size, you have problems maintaining criticality. A near relative of LFTR fluid fuel reactors, the Aqueous Homogeneous Reactor has the characteristic of being buildable in significantly smaller size, down to about 10 KW (thermal), or a hundred times smaller than a true LFTR. There is a medical isotope producing homogeneous reactor in Russia called ARGUS that is 20 KWt and burns HEU U-235. If you are willing to use somewhat exotic nuclear fue…

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