October 27, 2022
Plug and Play Nuclear Reactors
Timothy Birdnow
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U..S. Department of Energy Office of Nuclear Energy
NUCLEAR 101: Microreactors are factory-built, plug-and-play reactors.
âž¡ï¸ They can be used to power military bases, disaster recovery efforts or remote locations where traditional infrastructure doesn’t exist.
âž¡ï¸ These mini reactors can provide between 1-20 megawatts of thermal energy used directly as heat or converted to electric power.
âž¡ï¸ They fit on the back of a semi-truck 🚛and will not require a large number of people to operate them.
âž¡ï¸ Microreactors can integrate seamlessly into distributed grids to complement renewable power and are expected to run continuously for about 10 years without refueling.
âž¡ï¸ Once the core is spent, they can be exchanged for a new one.
Learn more: https://bit.ly/2BwsYQR
What's not to love?
U..S. Department of Energy Office of Nuclear Energy
NUCLEAR 101: Microreactors are factory-built, plug-and-play reactors.
âž¡ï¸ They can be used to power military bases, disaster recovery efforts or remote locations where traditional infrastructure doesn’t exist.
âž¡ï¸ These mini reactors can provide between 1-20 megawatts of thermal energy used directly as heat or converted to electric power.
âž¡ï¸ They fit on the back of a semi-truck 🚛and will not require a large number of people to operate them.
âž¡ï¸ Microreactors can integrate seamlessly into distributed grids to complement renewable power and are expected to run continuously for about 10 years without refueling.
âž¡ï¸ Once the core is spent, they can be exchanged for a new one.
Learn more: https://bit.ly/2BwsYQR
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Operative phrase here. "A handful of microreactor designs are under development in the United
States, and they could be ready to roll out within the next decade."
Also please note that fusion reactors are actually performing right now. Only for a few seconds at a time, of course, but making them commercially viable is just a matter of a few more years.
Not to mention all those windmills and solar panels.
Also please note that fusion reactors are actually performing right now. Only for a few seconds at a time, of course, but making them commercially viable is just a matter of a few more years.
Not to mention all those windmills and solar panels.
Posted by: Bill H at October 27, 2022 06:52 PM (Q7br2)
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I know; it's always "almost" and "soon".
While I think these will be out I am much more dubious about other such devices (like fusion reactors). We've been told they were almost there for ages now and they never are.
Close is only good enough in horseshoes and hand grenades.
While I think these will be out I am much more dubious about other such devices (like fusion reactors). We've been told they were almost there for ages now and they never are.
Close is only good enough in horseshoes and hand grenades.
Posted by: Timothy Birdnow at October 28, 2022 08:08 AM (dptnQ)
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Tim, these have been "under development" for at least fifteen years and no real progress has been made. They are a scam on the order of Theranos., selling a technology which exists only in the con man's head.
Posted by: Bill H at October 28, 2022 09:37 AM (Q7br2)
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I don't disagree at all Bill. Yeah; they are probably scams, or near enough.
It is nice to imagine though. I wish they would become ubiquitous and we could see the Left desperately try to suppress the technology despite their being clean and efficient. The Left has put so much into demonizing carbon and this?
It is nice to imagine though. I wish they would become ubiquitous and we could see the Left desperately try to suppress the technology despite their being clean and efficient. The Left has put so much into demonizing carbon and this?
Posted by: Timothy Birdnow at October 29, 2022 10:25 AM (IYV3P)
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