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Sources of nuclear cost saving from small and advanced reactors
There are eight primary sources of nuclear costs:The cost of the land upon which the nuclear power plant (NPP) is built. Costs related to designing the NPP Cost related to the materials from which the NPP is built.Labor costs related to...
Reverse Engineering the Future of Energy: Energy Sector Needs
This post is the fourth in a series on energy plans. The first post focused on a renewable based energy plan for Australia, the Zero Carbon Australia 2020 plan. Many critics have pointed to major flaws in that plan, while plan authors have been...
Reverse Engineering the Future of Energy: A future nuclear option?
Reverse engineering is usually thought of as a software development practice, but it can be used to produce the design of all sorts of products. One of the best known cases was the design of Intel instruction set microprocessors by Advanced Micro...
Planning for an Energy Future: The Zero Carbon Australia Plan as Representative Example
The creation of realistic plans for a viable energy future have, as of yet, received far to little attention. Energy goals should be tested with the creation of plans intended to demonstrate that the goals can be realized. Plans. in turn, should...
The Simple Levelized Cost of Energy Calculator
Never let it be said that the National Renewable Energy Lab has failed to do anything useful. While the NREL serves as a lobbying front for the renewable energy industry. The NREL has now come up with a tool for detecting the very frauds the NREL...
South Korea to enter small reactor business
South Korea is panning to enter the small reactor market. The South Korean Ministry of Education, Science and Technology announced on Monday that a consortium of South Korean corporations is developing a small (100 MWe) reactor design, intended...
The LFTR in the American Scientist
The LFTR story has now been told for the July-August Issue of the American Scientist by Robert Hargraves and Ralph Moir. The American Scientist account tracks closely with the views offered by Nuclear Green. Of course, the LFTR community is...
Understanding Molten Salt Reactors: 1. How are MSRs Different from LFTRs?
The name Molten Salt Reactor (MSR) is more inclusive than the name Liquid Fluoride Thorium Reactor (LFTR). The LFTR is a type of Molten Salt Reactor that features the use fluoride salts and a thorium fuel cycle. Strictly speaking a LFTR need not...
Bellefonte-1 Moving Forward
Both WBIR TV, the Knoxville News Sentinal and Dan Yurman of Idaho Samizdat are all reporting, based on a newly released Environmental impact statement that TVA is moving toward a decision to complete the long delayed Bellefonte-1 nuclear unit....
The MSR, LMFBR decision: Reason and Science Take a Back Seat
Nuclear Green has in the past offered sketches of the early history of reactor design. The classic reactor design was created by Enrico Fermi, and featured a solid core. Fermi was a physicist, and in a way designed his first reactor as a physics...
Was the Advent of the Power Reactor Premature?
The Light Water Reactor has never been an unqualified success. It is perceived as dangerous by many people, the disposition of its spent fuel remains a matter of political controversy, and it is often alleged, quite wrongly, to be a useful...
