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Kairos – Developing advanced nuclear energy in Alameda

November 13, 2018 By Rod Adams 67 Comments

…tion with the ANS Winter meeting, Ed Blandford, Chief Technical Officer of Kairos, mentioned that Kairos pebbles are smaller than the typical 6 cm pebbles chosen for most pebble-bed conceptual reactors. Smaller pebbles have the advantage of higher surface to volume ratios for enhanced heat transfer. He indicates this logical choice wouldn’t be as easy for gas cooled reactors. When I asked him why gas-cooled designs would be challenged with smaller…

Filed Under: Advanced Atomic Technologies, ANS Winter 2018

Atomic Show #288 – Per Peterson, CNO, Kairos Power

January 25, 2021 By Rod Adams 9 Comments

…est Unit now in construction in Albuquerque Image provided by Kairos Power Kairos Power Is developing a truly new nuclear fission power technology. Their KP-FHR (Kairos Power – Fluoride Salt Cooled, High Temperature Reactor) combines the solid fuel form usually associated with gas-cooled reactors with the fluoride molten salt often associated with fluid-fuel reactors. For Atomic Show #288, my guest was Dr. Per Peterson, Kairos Power’s chief nuclea…

Filed Under: Advanced Atomic Technologies, Molten salt cooled, Pebble Bed Reactors, Podcast

Kairos Power Is Hiring For Hybrid Natural Gas-Nuclear Power System

February 17, 2017 By Rod Adams

…y is seeking to fill, Dr. Peterson said that the best available summary of Kairos’s current situation is available on its LinkedIn page. Kairos deserves to have the space and patience needed to develop its technology, licensing and commercialization plans. Its current goal is to build a demonstration prototype by about 2030. Following testing and refinement, Kairos expects to be ready to enter the commercial power market in the late 2030s. Though…

Filed Under: Advanced Atomic Technologies, Hybrid, Innovation

Atomic Show #275 – Managing advanced nuclear development during pandemic

May 12, 2020 By Rod Adams 10 Comments

…and COO of Oklo Inc. Per Peterson, co-founder and Chief Nuclear Officer at Kairos Power Carl Perez, CEO at Elysium Industries Canon Bryan, Chief Financial Officer, Terrestrial Energy Lars Jorgenson, CEO, ThorCon Mark Mitchell, President, USNC-Power Your feedback is important. Please participate in the discussion and make suggestions for future topics. https://s3.amazonaws.com/AtomicShowFiles/atomic_20200511_275.mp3 Podcast: Play in new window | Do…

Filed Under: Advanced Atomic Technologies, Atomic Entrepreneurs, Business of atomic energy, Podcast

Press Release: Advanced Reactors Technical Summit IV & Technology Trailblazers Showcase

January 24, 2017 By Rod Adams 4 Comments

…E-Hitachi Nuclear Energy; General Atomics; Hybrid Power Technologies, LLC; Kairos Power, LLC; Muons, Inc.; Next Generation Nuclear Plant Industry Alliance; NuScale Power; Southern Nuclear Operating Company; Terrestrial Energy; ThorCon Power; Westinghouse Electric Company; and X-energy. U.S. NRC Chairman Stephen Burns headlines the keynoters, which also include U.S. Deputy Assistant Secretary of Energy Shane Johnson; Gateway for Accelerated Innovat…

Filed Under: Advanced Atomic Technologies

China’s high temperature reactor – pebble bed modular (HTR-PM) achieves its first criticality

September 14, 2021 By Rod Adams 34 Comments

On the morning of September 12, 2021, reactor number 1 of the eagerly awaited HTR-PM project was taken critical for the first time. Initial criticality for any new reactor is a big deal for the people involved in the project; this one is a big deal for the future of nuclear energy. It might also become a big deal for humanity’s ability to effectively reduce CO2 emissions enough to slow climate change. HTR-PM is a demonstration reactor that uses t…

Filed Under: Advanced Atomic Technologies, Atomic history, Business of atomic energy, Gas Cooled Reactors, Graphite Moderated Reactors, International nuclear, New Nuclear, Pebble Bed Reactors, Small Nuclear Power Plants, Smaller reactors

Turning nuclear into a fuel dominated business

October 28, 2018 By Rod Adams 66 Comments

…let temperature when they want to go To higher power operations. Actually, Kairos has decided to abandon this concept — at least for the first reactors that they intend to build. They probably will want to revisit it later, if they get the chance, but their effort to bring a reactor to market will skip this hybrid power system as too much risk and go with something more straightforward. Engineer-Poet What Kairos might want to do is come up with a…

Filed Under: Adams Engines, Advanced Atomic Technologies, Business of atomic energy, Economics, Gas Cooled Reactors, Graphite Moderated Reactors, Pebble Bed Reactors, Smaller reactors

Fission heated gas turbines address MIT Future of Nuclear challenges. Easier, straighter, less costly path

September 20, 2018 By Rod Adams 57 Comments

…uch as municipal utilities or manufacturing interests. scaryjello At least Kairos power wants to “co-fire” the natural gas combustion turbine with a radiator like was used for the MSRE. I love the idea of Brayton cycle using nuclear heat. Bearing lubrication is a major hurdle for “direct cycle” where reactor coolant passes through the core – the lube oil will soot-up the core and cement it together. High temperature magnetic bearings for a 10-ton…

Filed Under: Advanced Atomic Technologies, Gas Cooled Reactors, Graphite Moderated Reactors, New Nuclear, Pebble Bed Reactors, Small Nuclear Power Plants, Smaller reactors

What exploded in Russia on Aug 8? My estimate is a (chemical) booster rocket for a nuclear powered cruise missile.

August 23, 2019 By Rod Adams 37 Comments

…aturing concepts as NuScale’s natural circulation light water reactors and Kairos‘s Floride High Temperature reactors. All of them grew out of university research lab projects and all of them have been steadily led by university professors with commercial instincts. There’s still a lengthy path to commercialization, but that doesn’t invalidate the effort or the potential. PS – All reasonably well developed nuclear energy concepts have a friend at…

Filed Under: Gas Cooled Reactors, International nuclear, Nuclear Aircraft, Small Nuclear Power Plants, Smaller reactors

Catching Oklo — a rising star!

December 14, 2021 By Rod Adams 41 Comments

…s not behind it, it will not survive. Next to go the way of the dinosaurs: Kairos, Moltex, and half a dozen other fan favorites… Rod Adams @Michael Scarangellia I’m amused by your suggestion that people who want to see nuclear succeed – even in a place where the state is not the driving, organizing force – should go to work for Westinghouse. Isn’t Westinghouse the company that spent about 20 years designing an advanced passive reactor product (ini…

Filed Under: Advanced Atomic Technologies, Investing, Liquid Metal Cooled Reactors, Micro Reactors, New Nuclear, Small Nuclear Power Plants

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