Posted on 01/14/2024 8:28:12 AM PST by Twotone
Whatever happened to the The Paris Agreement? It’s a legally binding international treaty on climate change. It was adopted by 196 Parties at the UN Climate Change Conference (COP21) in Paris, France, on 12 December 2015. It entered into force on 4 November 2016.
And did France get the go-ahead from the recent Davos gathering? Oh, they must get the approval from the recent Davos gathering. One moment please - yes, they just reconvened after one of their many concubine sessions. Must be pretty tuckered out after all that.
And ze bugs! How does this effect the millions of recipes currently being whipped up with ze bugs? Maybe ze bugs will stay warm inside the nuclear power plants. Someone knows the answer to all these finer points...
Looks like Poland is getting ready to build a new nuclear plant. The other day I happened to see a job posting where Bechtel is hiring engineers and technical people for the project.
Nuclear is by far the best “clean” energy.
There is a very emotional fear of Nukes, but nuclear energy is the safest energy around.
The documented losses from nuclear radiation are actually around 500 people in the whole world since the 1900. About a year of Chicago warfare!
And yes, that’s including Hiroshima and Chernobyl as well as few minor accidents! (In Hiroshima, it is documented that over 300 people actually died of the radiation, the rest just burned alive!)
“...each nuclear reactor typically generates the same amount of power as 431 utility-scale wind turbines or 3.1 million solar panels. In addition to being less productive than nuclear and fossil fuels, renewables are unreliable.”
Children, before you run off with these numbers, keep in mind several things:
1. For wind, the turbines need to be multiplied by about 4, to account for the unreliability of the wind. For solar, roughly 4.5 times (but varies significantly with location).
2. For both, you need battery backup if you want the power 24/7, and due to the inefficiencies of moving power (really energy) to batteries and then back out of the batters, the above numbers increase to roughly 5 and 5.5 times.
3. The comparison is for ONE nuclear reactor. That is very rare for a nuke plant, as economies of scale almost always mean 2+ reactors, sometimes up to 6 (maybe 8, not sure) reactors. So, an even BIGGER multiplication factor.
So, in the end, one nuclear plant (multiple reactors) would need a HUGE battery pack, plus, maybe 4000 huge wind turbines or 40 Million solar panels (or a combination of the two) to replace it with ‘renewable’ power.
France had the Super Phoenix fast reactor it was not commercially viable at the time so it w as mothballed. France continues to be the world leader in reprocessing spent fuel into MOX fuel and surplus PU239 into secure storage for the day when breed reactors make monetary sense. France has two companies moving into the fast reactor space in the new few years.
Gpgple will translate that to English btw.
For the overview
https://www.greencarcongress.com/2023/03/20230312-cea.html
The USA should follow suit post haste. Sodium fast reactors with molten salt storage and also to keep the liquid sodium away from the steam cycle is the secret sauce to making Na cooled reactors cost comparative to natural gas combined cycle which is what sets the LCOE in most of the U.S. Wholesale power market. You have to hit $55 per megawatt hour to be competitive at the baseload price point peaker rates hit ten times that so with molten salt storage you can rapid ramp up to peaker rates it’s genius.
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