Sunday, February 19, 2023

Several universities to experiment with micro nuclear power

Good news! This is a very long, recommendable AP News article about this subject. I did not have the time to read it all!

Nuclear power beats e.g. unreliable, nature spoiling, environmentally polluting wind mills (a.k.a. turbines) anytime! In 30 years or more from now, people will look back at our time and wonder what the heck were these lunatics thinking or smoking!

We have now more than half a century of experience with civil nuclear power generation! It is very reliable and safe! Anything to the contrary is mostly alarmism and hysteria! Terrorism attacks or attempts to build a crude nuclear weapon can not be easily dismissed, but human ingenuity etc. will take care of these concerns. Yes, you may argue that wind mills are fairly safe from terrorist attacks, but are they?

"... Small but meaningful amounts of electricity — nearly enough to run a small campus, a hospital or a military complex, for example — will pulse from a new generation of micronuclear reactors. Now, some universities are taking interest. ...
Universities are interested in the technology not just to power their buildings but to see how far it can go in replacing the coal and gas-fired energy that causes climate change. ...
Universities are interested in the technology not just to power their buildings but to see how far it can go in replacing the coal and gas-fired energy that causes climate change. ...
Microreactors will be “transformative” because they can be built in factories and hooked up on site in a plug-and-play way ...
Last year, Penn State University signed a memorandum of understanding with Westinghouse to collaborate on microreactor technology.  ...
Nuclear reactors that are used for research are nothing new on campus. About two dozen U.S. universities have them. But using them as an energy source is new. ...
Kugelmass, a technology entrepreneur and mechanical engineer, is talking with some universities, but his primary focus is on industrial customers. He’s working with licensing authorities in the United Kingdom, Poland and Romania to try to get his first reactor running in Europe in 2025. ...
The total cost of Last Energy’s microreactor, including module fabrication, assembly and site prep work, is under $100 million, the company says. ..."

Several universities to experiment with micro nuclear power | AP News

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