Monday, September 07, 2020

TerraPower’s Nuclear Reactor Could Power the 21st Century

Recommendable! More on news designs for nuclear power plants. Those who believe renewable energy is the answer to or can meet the growing global energy demand are fooling themselves with a fantasy!

Unfortunately, the article is quite long and not very well written.

"Among carbon-free power sources, only nuclear fission reactors have a track record of providing high levels of power, consistently and reliably, independent of weather and regardless of location. ... Now, a significant fraction of the world’s 447 operable power reactors are showing their age and shortcomings, and after the Fukushima Daiichi disaster in Japan seven years ago, nuclear energy is in a precarious position. Between 2005 and 2015, the world share of nuclear in energy consumption fell from 5.73 to 4.44 percent. ... The breed-and-burn concept languished until Edward Teller, the driving force behind the hydrogen bomb, and astrophysicist Lowell Wood revived it in the 1990s. ... Sodium-cooled nuclear reactors have a history of lackluster performance, but TerraPower believes it can build one that will work."

TerraPower’s Nuclear Reactor Could Power the 21st Century - IEEE Spectrum The traveling-wave reactor and other advanced reactor designs could solve our fossil fuel dependency

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