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Russia continues sustained fast breeder reactor effort
ByRod Adams June 30, 2014July 11, 2020

…esigns they promote. “Explosive Driving Force” Comparison (GE PRISM versus LFTR) – A 300 MWe GE PRISM could produce a combined sodium fire/hydrogen explosion releasing 2.03 x 10^7 MJ of energy (estimate based on the explosive potential of 1650 tons of hot sodium and 803.4 million liters of hydrogen produced by reaction with cement or water) A 300 MWe LFTR could not produce an explosion with materials found in the reactor or with water 2.03 x 10^7…

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Atomic politics | Economics | International nuclear | Politics of Nuclear Energy

Energy versus Power – Energy delivered rapidly equals power
ByRod Adams January 16, 2014July 11, 2020

…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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Fossil fuel competition | Fracking

GE CTO describes his company’s focus on oil and gas technology
ByRod Adams December 30, 2013July 11, 2020

…ve I’m actually more of a PBMR/HTGR fan. Kind of a small crowd these days. LFTR‘s cool, but is likely the labor of a lifetime, while the PBMR/HTGR might take less time, perhaps 2-3 decades to full scale commercialization given reasonable mobilization of resources by DOE/NE, the IAEA, the NRC, and the Chinese with their HTR-10. For the record, I mostly disagree with socialism, but, dude, you have no idea what real socialism is, especially when you…

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Fossil fuel competition | Nuclear Communications | Pronuclear ads

Proud – but often frustrated – nuclear professional
ByRod Adams April 4, 2012July 16, 2020

…simple talking points that reveal why it is a lie. … and bickering over LFTR vs. IFR. Amen. The problem with many nuclear advocates is that they tend to be “fanboys.” So just like a couple of teenage nerds arguing over which video game or manga comic is the best, they waste their time arguing over which is the best reactor design. It’s enough to make one want to vomit. I’m close to the point of being openly hostile to LFTR-advocates, because th…

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Antinuclear activist | Atomic Advocacy | Nuclear regulations

Reactions to Macfarlane nomination for Chairman of NRC
ByRod Adams May 30, 2012July 14, 2020

…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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IPCC working group III recommends nearly quadrupling nuclear energy
ByRod Adams April 19, 2014July 11, 2020

…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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Former NRC Commissioner Jeffery Merrifield Discusses Fukushima Lessons Learned and Those Already Implemented
ByRod Adams March 18, 2011July 14, 2020

…, it’s now or never for an early introduction of the first-of-a-kind civil LFTR and once that step is taken, it will be like lighting the blue-touchpaper for LFTR manufacture. Miss this chance and it’s decades of open-cycle uranium use in an even more atrophied nuclear industry. harrywr2 With the roof blown off the building the odds of hydrogen building up to explosive levels are pretty low. Jeff Schmidt Hey guys, just a bit of media coverage upda…

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Antinuclear activist | Politics of Nuclear Energy

The battle for the atom is heating up again
ByRod Adams June 21, 2011July 6, 2020

…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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Advanced Reactor leaders: Will you put one in your backyard?
ByRod Adams April 17, 2016November 28, 2024

…on product inventory of a sodium cooled fast reactor is much larger than a LFTR or LWR of the same size. When you combine a very large radiological inventory, from a pool style fast reactor derived from the EBR-2 design scaled for 1 GWe level it results in a reactor with very large fire/explosive potential (5.8 x 10^13 joules of energy) from the 5500 metric tons of sodium coolant When you compare the explosive potential and potential for fire of a…

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Fossil fuel competition | Peak Oil

End of era of cheap combustion energy; beginning of era of cheap fission energy
ByRod Adams September 14, 2011July 15, 2020

…the system, and it appears to me that the Liquid Fluoride Thorium Reactor (LFTR) fits the bill. LFTRs will be molten salt high temperature reactors if and when they are commercialized. LFTRs should be cheaper to operate than today’s reactors which would hopefully bring down the end product’s production costs. Is there any reason why they couldn’t capture CO2 emissions from coal and natural gas fired plants for this process as well? Rod Adams @Sime…

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Liquid Fuel Reactors | Nuclear Fuel Cycle | The Atomic Show Podcast | Thorium Reactors

The Atomic Show #184 – Kirk Sorensen, Co-Founder Flibe Energy
ByRod Adams July 20, 2012July 4, 2020

…about a prototype reactor by 2015 a few years ago, but I don’t see turnkey LFTR units on offer before 2020 at the most optimistic — and Gen IV itself keeps talking about “beyond 2030” concepts. And General Atomics has recently dumped their long standing development of the GT-MHR and has picked up with fast-spectrum helium which has nearly the same thermal efficiencies of LFTR combined with the SNF utilization capability of IFRs. Attach a helium h…

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Fuel Recycling | Nuclear Batteries | Nuclear Waste | Plutonium | Thorium

What do you do with the waste? – Kirk Sorensen’s answers
ByRod Adams October 13, 2011July 1, 2020

…olid fuel reactor spent fuel can provide the startup fissile inventory for LFTRs. The paper Optimized Transition from the Reactors of Second and Third Generations to the Thorium Molten Salt Reactor discusses this and suggests an optimum strategy for getting the breeding going. We’ll turn “waste” into gold (well, a revenue stream anyway) and get rid of another objection. Warning to anyone wanting to add material to the remixes: you have to match Ki…

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