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Small Modular Reactors Could Be An American Export – But We Need to Move Faster

ByRod Adams

…e Balkans and does want to become a regional energy player … For all the Hyperions and alike small nuclear manufactures out there … I have to say. You guys ought to send those sells-men and start building contacts and start promoting your technology, since when the time is right Chinese and Indian WILL be there … There are several groups of young and aggressive players on the energy markets there, which do have the needed financial strength…

Coal Miners against nuclear power
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Means, Motive and Opportunity – The Natural Gas Industry’s Price War Against the Nuclear Renaissance

ByRod Adams

…rcial nuclear power plant experience yourself. I think Tohiba, NuScale and Hyperion will have success before you. Good luck with that degree in English! EL So taking this argument further, this post raises a question of what is needed (from a technological perspective) for nuclear to be an adequate and effective replacement for natural gas in electricity generation? Since there are few “here” talking about investments in conservation, efficiency,…

Smoking Gun – Jerry Taylor, a Fellow at the Cato Institute, founded by a Koch, Focuses Libertarian Rhetoric Against Nuclear, but Ignores Natural Gas Subsidies

ByRod Adams

…eed tools for new entries, such as small nuclear power plants, NuScale and Hyperion, and Liquid Floride Thorium Reactors. Rod Adams My issue with having the industry that is regulated pay for all of the costs of the regulations is that there is no mechanism for allowing the folks with the checkbook control how much gets spent. Regulators who are 100% risk averse, but are not forced to consider the risks of NOT using fission will tend toward never…

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The Atomic Show #110 – George Karayannis, Executive Director, EnergizeAmerica

ByRod Adams

…lity to do that. It would also be possible to use phase change materials(e.g. salt water eutectic) to give a freezer the abillity to soak up quite a lot of intermittent electricity. Bill Woods Hyperion‘s reactors are $25–30 million for 25 MWe. That’s about 1 $/W, not 2. The catch is that they only last 5–10 years, rather than a LWR’s 40–60 years….

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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….

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…

Commercial Nuclear Ships: A New Market for Uranium

ByRod Adams

…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…

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…

Wind Power Challenges In Pacific Northwest

ByRod Adams

…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…

Platts Small Modular Reactor Meeting – Today and Tomorrow

ByRod Adams

…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…

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