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Bill Gates and team have created clean power
Posted on 5/9/20 at 12:37 pm
Posted on 5/9/20 at 12:37 pm
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Next-gen nuclear’s alphabet soup One of those technologies is known as TWR, which stands for traveling wave reactors. Rather than relying exclusively on enriched uranium, traveling wave reactors are designed to make use of depleted uranium – the waste that’s left over at enrichment plants – as its reload fuel.
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Lab facility manager Brian Morris said the radiation exposure is barely above background levels. “You could fly from here to Washington, D.C., and you’d get more radiation than standing in that lab for a week,” he told us after the tour.
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Just last week, TerraPower announced that it’s conducted 1,000 hours of continuous operations on an isothermal loop that’s designed to test how molten salt would affect components as it moves through a reactor. The successful loop experiment represents the first step toward setting up a full-scale integrated effects test platform that will support the licensing process for a demonstration reactor.
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Huge steps in nuclear power are being made
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Posted on 5/9/20 at 12:39 pm to thadcastle
What lucky city will be the one to get disintegrated testing a large scale version of this device?
Posted on 5/9/20 at 12:40 pm to thadcastle
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BY ALAN BOYLE on August 11, 2019 at 7:00 am
Posted on 5/9/20 at 12:40 pm to thadcastle
I thought all sinister libs hated nuclear power?
This post was edited on 5/9/20 at 12:43 pm
Posted on 5/9/20 at 12:40 pm to thadcastle
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You’d get more radiation than standing in that lab for a week
Posted on 5/9/20 at 12:45 pm to thadcastle
Thorium reactors need more attention.
Posted on 5/9/20 at 1:11 pm to Walking the Earth
We don't have more Nuclear energy because of this attitude. Nuclear power is safe if you don't build it on the coast of an island on a fricking fault line.
Posted on 5/9/20 at 1:12 pm to thadcastle
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Just last week, TerraPower announced that it’s conducted 1,000 hours of continuous operations on an isothermal loop that’s designed to test how molten salt would affect components as it moves through a reactor. The successful loop experiment represents the first step toward setting up a full-scale integrated effects test platform that will support the licensing process for a demonstration reactor.
I don't know what any of that shite means
Posted on 5/9/20 at 1:12 pm to thadcastle
Posted on 5/9/20 at 1:13 pm to armsdealer
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We don't have more Nuclear energy because of this attitude. Nuclear power is safe if you don't build it on the coast of an island on a fricking fault line.
And about 30 ft below the recommended elevation at the time it was built
Posted on 5/9/20 at 1:21 pm to armsdealer
Posted on 5/9/20 at 1:23 pm to thadcastle
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it’s conducted 1,000 hours of continuous operations on an isothermal loop that’s designed to test how molten salt would affect components as it moves through a reactor
Posted on 5/9/20 at 1:28 pm to Powerman
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And about 30 ft below the recommended elevation at the time it was built
And the real killer, in spite of the primary failing, the back up failing, the back up back up failing, they still had over a day to try to regain control of the situation. It only failed because the plug in interface for external mobile generators couldn’t be used due to it being fricking under ground level and flooded, and while the grid can work like that, the junction cables couldn’t.
They were trying to make an improvised tie in when the rods melted through.
Posted on 5/9/20 at 1:56 pm to Volvagia
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And the real killer, in spite of the primary failing, the back up failing, the back up back up failing, they still had over a day to try to regain control of the situation. It only failed because the plug in interface for external mobile generators couldn’t be used due to it being fricking under ground level and flooded, and while the grid can work like that, the junction cables couldn’t.
Holy shite that’s bad engineering. You guys are talking about Fukushima?
Honestly, it amazes me that there’s not more public support behind depleted uranium reactors considering all of the problems they solve - CO2 generation, nuclear waste disposal, reduced risk of nuclear proliferation, etc.
Posted on 5/9/20 at 2:00 pm to northshorebamaman
quote:Perfect gif.
northshorebamaman
Posted on 5/9/20 at 2:07 pm to lostinbr
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Honestly, it amazes me that there’s not more public support behind depleted uranium reactors considering all of the problems they solve - CO2 generation, nuclear waste disposal, reduced risk of nuclear proliferation, etc.
What what?
Depleted uranium is a by product of the same technology to make weapons grade uranium. It doesn’t reduce nuclear proliferation risk at all.
What you are wanting to look at is thorium reactor technology. Which is better across the board for civil energy generation but because it can’t easily be integrated in a nuclear weapons infrastructure it has been left neglected.
There are indications we can use seed thorium reactors with existing waste to “burn it up” as well, changing it from a half-life of 250k years to one of merely 500.
Posted on 5/9/20 at 2:09 pm to thadcastle
Hopefully this gets funded and implemented. Great potential for the future.
Posted on 5/9/20 at 2:40 pm to Volvagia
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Depleted uranium is a by product of the same technology to make weapons grade uranium. It doesn’t reduce nuclear proliferation risk at all.
Maybe I’m misunderstanding the risks, but one of the arguments I hear against the use of small nuclear reactors in developing nations is that there’s the risk of bad actors getting their hands on fissile material. Presumably using depleted uranium instead of enriched uranium is beneficial from this standpoint?
Posted on 5/9/20 at 2:51 pm to lostinbr
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Presumably using depleted uranium instead of enriched uranium is beneficial from this standpoint?
Yeah, right now it’s just waste sitting tanks around the country.
Posted on 5/9/20 at 2:58 pm to lostinbr
In practice however, how many countries will willingly allow their entire electrical infrastructure be reliant on other countries’ delivery of fuel?
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