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…g from time to time.) Katie Fehrenbacher at earth2tech wrote a blog titled Hyperion Signs First Customer for Nuclear Pods Ahoycargo.com published Hyperion’s press release under a new title without comment or modification Transportable Nuclear Power Reactor, Hyperion Power Generation Lands Initial Set of Customers So did Yahoo Finance Hyperion Power Generation Lands Initial Set of Customers for the HPM Small, Safe, Transportable Nuclear Power React…

…laboratory types have been quietly developing for decades without too much notice or support. I think American taxpayers are going to be glad that we made some of those investments over the years. Related Posts Hyperion Power’s portable nuclear reactors could ship by 2013 Backyard Nuclear Reactor Should Be Ready to Ship by 2013 Hyperion Power Generation Delivering First of 4000 Reactor Modules in June 2013…

…from the company’s FAQ page in response to a question about whether or not Hyperion is interested in obtaining investment capital – “Hyperion Power Generation, Inc. (HPG) is a private company and has all the capital needed for the current development phase of Hyperion.”) Brown also brought up the often repeated issue of tritium that is associated with existing nuclear power plants in the United States. Scott Burnell, the NRC public affairs office…

…reactors, even if you are interested in using different concepts than the Hyperion, it is good to get a feel for the kinds of questions that will be posed and the kinds of cheering that you might receive. Waste Volume One claim made by Hyperion on their web site and repeated in several of the articles that I have found in recent weeks on the topic is the following: “The waste produced after five years of operation is approximately the size of a s…

…vening with Forrest Rudin and TJ Trapp of Hyperion Power Generation. TJ is Hyperion’s Vice President of Engineering, Forrest is the Chief of Staff. You can listen to our conversation at Atomic Show #148 – Hyperion Power Module Update. We were able to delve into some significant detail about the current state of the system design including the coolant choice, the fuel material, the reactivity control system, and the steam plant conditions. We also…

…uck and to be manufactured in a variety of pressure vessel manufacturing plants. The only real difference between the fuel planned for NuScale and that used in existing light water reactors is that the tube bundles are much shorter at 6 feet long rather than 15 feet long. Hyperion Power Generation is working to produce 25 MWe power systems where the heat source is about 1.5 meters in diameter and designed to be installed underground. You can read…

…ck. (Of course, there are places in the world not reachable by truck, but anything that can be put on the back of a standard flat bed can generally be carried via large helicopter as well.) You can hear the interview at The Atomic Show #104 – Hyperion Power Generation with John ‘Grizz’ Deal Hyperion Power Modules will be about the size of a deep hot tub and will produce roughly 70 MW of thermal energy. Connected to the right kind of heat conversio…

Hyperion Power Generation, a company that has been covered extensively on Atomic Insights, has been talking for a couple of years about its plans to build hot tub sized reactors that can generate 70 MW worth of heat for 5-10 years without any new fuel. According to Nuclear Engineering International, they intend to build their first manufacturing facility in the UK, in a location that can let them take advantage of some of the existing nuclear pla…