…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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Power Magazine May 2010 Cover Story – US Spent Nuclear Fuel Policy: Road to Nowhere
…in their waste. Why should we fuss around with separate reprocessing. The LFTR and the TWR appear to deal with weapons proliferation well enough to entertain the idea of placing reactors in developing world countries. Promoting industrialization in countries with high birth rates may be an effective way to deal with the over population problem. The prospect for producing a reactor that can produce energy cheaper than coal speaks to the climate ch…
Advanced Reactor leaders: Will you put one in your backyard?
…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…
End of era of cheap combustion energy; beginning of era of cheap fission energy
…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…
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…
Russia continues sustained fast breeder reactor effort
…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…
Proud – but often frustrated – nuclear professional
…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…
Sad-ending story of EBR-II told by three of its pioneers
…ational to conduct a rational comparison between the LFTR and the IFR. The LFTR and indeed all thermal LLFT breeders as well as LFTR 1 to 1 converters, whould offer significant advantages in several areas over th have a big advantage over the IFR. These include include safety. Ya, I know the party line about the IFR being perfectly safe, except Sandia does not think so, and you never hear about what Sandia saif from IFR advocates. You also run int…
What do you do with the waste? – Kirk Sorensen’s answers
…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…
Impressive List of Supporters Ask Dr. John Holdren To Pay More Attention To Nuclear Energy Development and Deployment
…me mention should be made of fission-fusion hybrids, molten salt reactors (LFTR), accelerator driven systems) which promise at least equivalent cost effective benefit to society as the Integral Fast Reactor and traditional nuclear fuel recycling. I hope the current administration is open to influence and flexible enough to make mid course corrections when it becomes evident that a narrow renewable energy only agenda for America’s energy future is…
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…
Former NRC Commissioner Jeffery Merrifield Discusses Fukushima Lessons Learned and Those Already Implemented
…, 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…
