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Clean and Doable Liquid Fission (LF) Energy Roadmap for Powering Our World
By: Robert Hargraves and Chris Uhlik Introduction This essay responds to an article by Stanford Professor Mark Z. Jacobson et al, 100% Clean and Renewable Wind, Water, and Sunlight (WWS) All-Sector...
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Can Gas Turbines Using Nuclear Fuel Change The Energy Game?
Mobile low power number 1 (ML-1). Closed cycle nuclear gas turbine circa 1962.Credit: U.S. Army Disclosure: Rod Adams founded the now defunct Adams Atomic Engines, Inc. His company developed nuclear...
View ArticleUrenco, Bruce Power Sign MOU To Develop U-Battery for Canada
Urenco, Bruce Power and AMEC NSS Limited recently announced that they had signed an MOU to cooperate in the design, licensing and development of Urenco’s U-Battery micro nuclear system for the...
View ArticleNuScale announces a major step in the NRC’s review of its passively safe SMR
NuScale, a leader in the increasingly competitive field of advanced nuclear reactor design, has announced that the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) reviewers issued a document that formally...
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Fission heated gas turbines address MIT Future of Nuclear challenges. Easier,...
Addressing Recommendations of MIT Future of Nuclear Energy In a Carbon Constrained World The Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) is a world renowned institution that has produced thousands of...
View ArticleML-1 Mobile Power System: Reactor in a Box
This is an August 2022 update of an article first published in November 1996 and updated in February 2019. The first update was stimulated by discussions associated with DOD’s issuance of an RFI for...
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Project Pele – Part II. Enabling technologies
Building mobile nuclear power plants will be a challenge, but successfully meeting the challenges could alter the future trajectory of the energy and fuels supply industry. ML-1 shown being off-loaded...
View ArticleWhat exploded in Russia on Aug 8? My estimate is a (chemical) booster rocket...
A cruise missile with a nuclear reactor heated turbofan engine and a liquid fueled booster rocket is the most likely description of the Russian developmental weapons system that exploded while being...
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Atomic Show #276 – HolosGen Claudio Filippone and Chip Martin
HolosGen has attacked the nuclear power plant cost and schedule challenge from the opposite direction chosen by many nuclear reactor developers. Claiming to be agnostic about the reactor specifics –...
View ArticleAtomic Show #277 – Simon Wakter, pro-nuclear engineer in an ambivalent country
Simon Wakter is a strongly pro-nuclear engineer in a country that passed a referendum officially phasing out nuclear energy since several years before he was born. He has to round up to be called a...
View ArticleTranscript: Atomic Show #278 – Micro-Modular Reactor (MMR) project partners...
Atomic Show #278 transcript, lightly edited for clarity. Intro music (00:15): [inaudible] Rod Adams (00:21):This is Rod Adams and it’s time for Atomic Show show number 278. Yes, these Atomic Shows are...
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Atomic Show #278 – Micro-Modular Reactor (MMR) project partners USNC, GFP and...
Global First Power (GFP), Ultra Safe Nuclear Corporation (USNC) and Ontario Power Generation (OPG) recently announced that they had formed a joint venture called Global First Power Limited...
View ArticleEconomy of Scale?: Is Bigger Better?
It is possible for engineers to make incredibly complex calculations without a single math error that still come up with a wrong answer if they use a model based on incorrect assumptions. (Originally...
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Atomic Show #287 – Darren Gale, VP Commercial Operations, X-Energy talks...
X-Energy is the lead recipient for one of two industry groups selected to receive $80 M in Department of Energy (DOE) funding as part of a public-private partnership program to demonstrate advanced...
View ArticleChina’s high temperature reactor – pebble bed modular (HTR-PM) achieves its...
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...
View ArticleWhat makes smaller nuclear power systems so exciting?
Let me start by dispelling the notion that I think smaller, modular, manufactured nuclear power systems – often called SMRs or micro reactors – are the be all and end all solution to anything,...
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Why are smaller reactors attracting so much interest?
Small modular reactors (SMRs) are gaining increased attention as a major opportunity in clean power production. They are a welcome tool in the necessary transition from an energy system dominated by...
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Atomic Show #303 – Bret Kugelmass, CEO Last Energy
Rendering of Last Energy’s 20 MWe installations (Last Energy) Last Energy is an innovative new company governed by a philosophy of avoiding the invention of anything that has not been done before....
View ArticleAtomic Show #306 – Dr. Rita Baranwal, Westinghouse AP300
Westinghouse, one of the world’s first nuclear power plant vendors, recently announced a new small modular reactor (SMR) design called the AP300. It is described as a simplified version of the AP1000,...
View ArticleWhy did the Carbon Free Power Project get cancelled? What does that mean for...
I’ll start with a disclosure. I’m still long on NuScale in my personal portfolio and have no intention of changing that position in the near future. I believe that the company has a good product and...
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