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The Dawn of a U.S. Nuclear Renaissance

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Posted By: DVC, 5/11/2023 3:56:16 PM

There are geopolitical and energy realities coming to fruition that nuclear can solve. After more than sixty years, Germany closed all its nuclear power plants (NPPs) with Isar-2, Emsland, and Neckarwestheim-2 officially disconnected from the grid. Germany lost approximately 5% of its power generation. The German government went against science, reason, and grid reliability. Green hydrogen is the process of using renewables (wind and solar) for electricity to produce hydrogen. It is still in its development phase. However, to generate the amount of electricity required to unlock hydrogen from water BloombergNEF estimates: “would take more electricity than the world generates today from all sources combined

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Nuke power is good, reliable base load power. If you look up Wolf Creek Nuclear Station, near Burlington, KS you can find out about THE very best nuke plant running. Started in 1985 and has been making over 1 Gigawatt for all that time since. Upgraded with a better steam turbine a number of years ago, it now puts out even more power than the original specs, no change to the reactor. And sometimes I point out that burning nat gas in a powerplant "throws away 2/3 of the energy in the gas".....note that the thermal power of Wolf Creek is 3565 MW, but the new electrical output is 1250 MW. There is your waste heat.....only 35% of the heat gets turned into electricity. And this is a pretty good plant. The original turbine permitted only 33% of the heat to become electricity. Natural gas should be ONLY used as a source of heat, like cooking, home heating or industrial applications. Never for making electricity, which wastes so much.
Not practical to put a reactor in each home, but easy to pipe nat gas to each home.

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Reply 1 - Posted by: BruceInWorcester 5/11/2023 4:30:56 PM (No. 1467869)
The most encouraging thing in that article is there will be fast neutron reactors. For a properly-designed fast reactor, that football field of nuclear waste is fuel, and from that “waste,” it can also make fuel for more conventional thermal neutron reactors. Our habit of running enriched uranium through a reactor once and then tossing it is tremendously wasteful. We had such a reactor, on a large pilot plant scale, in the seventies. It could neither runaway, melt down or blow down. When deprived of a heat sink or coolant circulation, its core expanded, and it shut down.
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Reply 2 - Posted by: bpl40 5/11/2023 5:49:19 PM (No. 1467914)
An established energy expert had written that just the land requirements favor nuclear. To generate One Megawatt it takes one square mile for nuclear, seventy plus for solar and over four hundred for wind mills. Game, set, match!
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Reply 3 - Posted by: Omen55 5/11/2023 7:22:14 PM (No. 1467959)
Joey & dem will sabotage it.
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Reply 4 - Posted by: bad-hair 5/11/2023 7:24:37 PM (No. 1467962)
Generate all you want. If the grid can't get it to your electric truck because you live on floor 26 of a New York high rise it accomplishes specifically NOTHING. With politicians in charge ... nuff said.
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Reply 5 - Posted by: Zeek Wolfe 5/11/2023 8:04:57 PM (No. 1467977)
Thorium is being looked at closely in India for electrical generation. This is an option that should be considered in our country.
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Reply 6 - Posted by: curious1 5/12/2023 10:35:10 PM (No. 1468649)
#5, China started tests on their first LFTR around 18 months ago. a 2MWt prototype, I've heard. It's in the Gobi desert.
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