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PopAtomic produces useful training aid to explain Fukushima Daiichi to school children

ByRod Adams

…e’s out of touch with what is going on down on the street. He spoke of the Hyperion and PRISM as if they were emerging designs like LFTRs and TravelingWaves. He doesn’t seem to have learned the lessons tought by the computer revolution: Being huge, expensive, clumsy, and inflexible are rarely advantages in the marketplace. There are at least 8 additional advantages the new small reactors can have over your father’s reactor that have created a whol…

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What does a melted nuclear core look like?

ByRod Adams

…red it dead in the water, but aren’t alternatives available? For instance, Hyperion was supposed to use uranium hydride in their modular reactors, just like Triga reactors, but in order to speed up development and delivery times, they ended up settling for a liquid-metal-cooled uranium nitride fueled reactor core for the time being. From what we’ve been reading about LFTR technology, these reactors are able to attain extremely high temperatures, a…

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Nuclear industry leaders are wimps – it’s time to fight back!

ByRod Adams

…. And in fact have proven less fatal. I like the passive safe designs from hyperion, Adam’s Atomic Engines, LFTR and the pebble bed reactors. The potential these have for safety is amazing, so that they and their surrounding components can be destroyed and not much is going to happen. So, yes, let’s clean up Fukishima and then build new designs. Lots and lots of them. David I have long thought the point you are making DV82XL. Overwhelming people w…

“Green Nukes” – Important climate change mitigation tools

ByRod Adams

…they’d be quietly dumping money into Terrapower, FLiBe Energy, GE/Hitachi, Hyperion, NuScale, and all the other small reactor projects. And Rod: while you want uranium to start a LFTR, it’s only a seed; the design is meant to make its own U233 during operation, hopefully in slight excess. It shouldn’t require any U for continued operation. Additionally, in the absence of U, there’s the ThEA design that uses a particle accelerator to produce U233….

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Responses to BRC on America’s Nuclear Future from fast reactor experts

ByRod Adams

…ead on the walls in Washington, D.C. regarding this subject for 5 years at Hyperion Power. I believe just a relative few truly got the message and saw the potential – the rest were mired in their own political entanglements, ambitions, ambivalence, laziness, didn’t want to rock the boat, etc. We must overcome this inertia! The U.S. is just getting further and further behind in nuclear energy leadership. We will not prevent other countries from tak…

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Kirk Sorensen – Why didn’t molten salt thorium reactors succeed the first time?

ByRod Adams

…licensing and other technical issues that will be much easier for LFTR and Hyperion if the SMR-LWR leads the way. Also, the whole issue of actual risk is very important and we need to win that now – with current designs rather than wait for another new design to take over. This battle is NOT going to be won by making a safer reactor – even zero deaths did not reduce the media’s desire to capitalize on the word “radiation” through fear mongering, s…

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Reactions to Macfarlane nomination for Chairman of NRC

ByRod Adams

…ing the datacenter with mini nuclear power stations like the Toshiba 4s or hyperion design (or something similar made by Russian producer). However, that remark got me almost thrown out of the project. The client was not pleased at all. Apparently, one should not mention the word ‘nuclear’ to Russian clients. I still wonder what the reason was for this hostility about nuclear. Surely, Russia has the capability to build nuclear powered datacenters?…

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Ray Suarez of PBS indicates belief that nuclear energy is irrelevant to America’s future

ByRod Adams

…mber of base station solar needs to be installed before it becomes news… Hyperion http://www.gen4energy.com / NuScale / Flibe / MPower / Toshiba 4S / and other are stalled by the rules posted by the NRC – find a buyer first and then we will review. But that is not news. A regulatory agency blocking the invention of a new style of power that is distributable and emission free (for all practical purposes) is just not news… Being able to replace…

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Emotional evaluation of risks should favor nuclear energy

ByRod Adams

…el costs 40 cents a kwh. When the generators run. I am deeply attracted to Hyperion‘s design and Rod’s Atomic Engines because these type of simple designs can be run safely by people with a few months of intensive training and are still safe even if people walk away from them. I love the simplicity and I love the reliability. I have become a nuclear Nut case. I pray that you will be very effective as you present options for those looking to power…

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

ByRod Adams

…gineer-Poet, Yes, a Denatured Molten Salt Reactor could also work. I think Hyperion‘s design is really good as well. I got super excited about Nuclear when I understood it could be made so simple to operate. In some places like PNG the Bush plane will be the only way for decades due to the mountains worse than West Virginia. But in those areas a micro hydro is a much better option since the elevation drop is so great and the rainfall so heavy. But…

Explaining my dismissal of fossil fuel alternatives that are NOT nuclear fission
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Explaining my dismissal of fossil fuel alternatives that are NOT nuclear fission

ByRod Adams

…David @Ciao, Thanks for the reply and for reading closely. Did you see the Hyperion design? It was going to last for 10 years and would then cool down for a while when a replacement was being put into place. It simply produced heat, and there were no external controls needed. You could hook that up with many types of heat exchangers to draw power and steam is only one of the possible ways. Water makes an excellent cooling medium for the low side o…

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