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…with 1 module, increase to 4. The PBMR is another possibility. Or even the Hyperion, or the AAE for even smaller utilities, munis and the like. Kit P Nobody should make any general assumptions about the cost of either wind or nuclear power based on the performance of ENW. From 2009 ENW Annual Report: Jason Since I work at the company I have access to proprietary information and can develop the most accurate financial models possible. Not having th…

…rhaps several hundred years, though limited scale ones, like the LFTR, the Hyperion, and the 4S will be common well before then. I doubt that the general public will fight against a nuclear powered world. The previous fight was caused by those who grew up in the era of atomic testing and the Cuban Missile Crisis coming of age and fallaciously connecting atomic bombs with nuclear power (kind of like saying “Napalm is evil and must be banned. Napalm…

…0th the size of commercial nuclear plants. Today, there are companies like Hyperion, NuScale, and B&W who are developing much smaller nuclear generators that can be manufactured in a factory rather than painstakingly site built. They are aimed at being nimble and responsive to market demands. Since they can generate reliable, emission free power without any grid connectivity for years without any new fuel, they are well suited to many markets that…

…Bill Gates chose to talk about energy and climate at this year’s TED talks. Here is the video of his talk. https://www.ted.com/talks/bill_gates?language=en…

…d require shift to recycling and fast reactors. Something like the revised Hyperion design featuring a fast reactor. Only the Chinese can dare to put it into bulk production. katana0182 (Dave) The few mentions of speed of Somali pirates that I can find from a brief Google search indicate speeds of up to 23.5 kt vs. a ship operating at 22 kt. I do know that internal combustion engines operated at over their “sweet spot” in terms of RPM tend to exhi…

…n to the office and Amy says: hey, have you ever heard of a company called Hyperion? I hear they are making small reactors… Word is getting around about small reactor possibilities! Amy does not have broadband, she spends little time on the net, etc. She’s not exactly following the blogosphere on this! Everyone who is pro-nuclear and hears about small reactors becomes excited about them. Paul Not to be impatient, but what about the second day? R…

…so and we have 3 or 4 companies ready to sell real replacements. (NuScale, Hyperion, MPower). EL Thanks David. I actually agree with you on most of your points. Our energy system (in the West) is heavily reliant on fossil fuels, and this skews the numbers for any particular power source (wind, solar, nuclear, geothermal, and other). This can be managed, I agree, and we will see a great many technological improvements in the near and long term, and…

…d Rod luck, or in replacing fuel oil to power cargo ships, in which I wish Hyperion luck. But – as far as I’m personally concerned, chemistry has always interested me more than physics, and chemical engineering interests me more than nuclear engineering. AGW might have changed that for a time, but the time might be changing back. All of the chemical transformations and processes that you can do to coal, carbonaceous substances like oil shale, or e…