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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…

…a regulatory body like the NRC having to tell applicants like Toshiba and Hyperion that they are simply too busy to give proper attention to the process of licensing small “grid appropriate” reactors. I fully understand that there is a need to prioritize the expenditure of government funds, and the size of the market for large power reactors is currently far larger than for small ones like the 4S and the Hyperion Power Generator. However, the ind…

…RC is aware that Hyperion and others have proposed building such reactors. Hyperion has advised the NRC it intends to provide technical reports on its proposal in the fall of 2009 as part of a pre-application review. That is only the first step in a process that could take years and years (emphasis added). The licensing of new, small reactors is not just around the corner. The NRC’s attention and resources now are focused on the large-scale reacto…

…e gas-cooled reactors (GT-MHR, PBMR, AAE, Romanwa Nereus) and the original Hyperion hydride reactor so revolutionary (the new Hyperion reactor is very interesting, too, but I’d like to learn more prior to describing it as inherently safe) – if designed correctly, there’s no real bounding criteria or reason for regulation beyond design certification, perhaps inspection of physical barriers, and perhaps certification that the reactor is built or ref…

…nel for the session, with Deborah Deal Blackwell, Senior Vice President of Hyperion Power Generation, Daniel Breig, Director of Project Development of Southern California Edison (offering a potential customer perspective), Michael Shepherd, Vice President of Business Development of Babcock&Wilcox Modular Nuclear Energy, Paul Lorenzini, President and Chief Executive Officer of NuScale Power, and Michael Mayfield, Director, Advanced Reactor Program,…

…raveling Wave Reactors will be 10-20 times as large as the “hot tub sized” Hyperion Power Modules. They can still be significantly smaller than the 1200-1600 MWe reactors that many people who discuss nuclear matters think of as “standard”. Gates and his TerraPower team will need to work with a power plant designer and equipment vendors that can build the physical machinery that their computer programs design and simulate. Toshiba would be a great…

…otential customer base, for example, for $30 million dollar, hot tub sized Hyperion Power Modules than there is for 1100-1700MWe central station light water reactors. The monetary value of the later market may be much larger, but the number of potential customers for the former is many orders of magnitude greater. Neither Hyperion nor NuScale appear to be too worried about convincing the Department of Energy to support their research and developme…

…gulatory barriers. Technology presenters included NuScale, B&W (mPowerTM), Hyperion (HPM), General Atomics (MHTGR, EM2), GE/Hitachi (Prism), Westinghouse (PBMR, IRIS). For most of the attendees, one of the more interesting sessions matched up a engineer leading a tiny division of one of the largest companies in the world – GE/Hitachi – with the CEO of one of the smallest, but most marketing oriented firms in the business – Hyperion. During the day…