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This gives 0% carbon to the earth’s atmosphere.
Why not do it??
I think this thing is (@(@$^&) awesome! Think about banks of these rather than huge soot-spewing stacks of coal plants!
Too bad Toshiba is on my Boycott Forever list...
Alaska is getting real energy solutions and the lower 49 are still tilting at windmills.
Some sort of lesson or parable going on here.
I didn’t see it in the article...I thought it might be pebble bed technology, but it doesn’t look like it.
We should definitely go nuclear.
It looks like a Toshiba 4S is being installed in Galena, Alaska.
At today’s rates 10MW x 30 years is about $400,000,000.00 in electricity. (please check my math)
I would bet it is cheaper than anything else out there even after you decommission it.
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I’m not a nuclear physicist or reactor engineer, and I have never played one on television, and I don’t remember where I slept last night.
While fusion technology has not moved forward as briskly as I thought it might, say, 20 years ago, I think the barriers to much better fission designs and implementations have been social and political rather than technical and economic.
I would love it if Alaska started siting nukes all over the place. It would just be another example of how Sarah Palin is getting it done while everybody in the lower 48 does nothing but whine and wring their hands.
Am I right in supposing this size reactor is something like a nuclear sub or aircraft carrier might operate?
I think this Toshiba mini-reactor is well suited for remote areas like Alaska. While counter-intuitive, there are also a number of geothermal energy projects on the horizon in Alaska, especially with the binary turbine design that allows for operation at lower geothermal temperatures. Governor Palin has been a true leader in energy production innovations.
According to Wikipedia (?) they say that Toshiba is installing this reactor in Galena free of charge. I suppose they are hoping to use this as a success story for future marketing.
The enviroweenies will scream to high heaven and it will take 20 years to get the things built, if ever.
These reactors are a great idea, IMO, too bad about all the legal hurdles though.
http://www.nuscalepower.com/
This company is an offshoot of the nuclear engineering program at Oregon State University, one of the best nuclear engineering schools in the US.
Alaska also had/has some radioisotope thermoelectric generators (AKA as SNAP) units
One at Fairway Rock custody of the NAVY - pulled 1995.
About 170 miles north of Fairbanks, the U.S. Air Force stands guard over a cluster of relatively small radioactive generators, while officials review ways to remove the devices to assuage concerns of nearby residents.
The units are called radioisotope thermoelectric generators, or RTGs, and they are in storage at a site known as Burnt Mountain. That’s about 50 miles from the native villages of Venetie and Arctic Village on a 108-acre military site within the Yukon Flats National Wildlife Refuge.
“It’s the northernmost (military) seismic facility in Alaska, and the one facility of seven in Alaska that had used RTGs,” said Captain Brad Jessmer, chief of public relations at Eielson Air Force Base.
Folks are throwing fits over sealed, small scale units (wished I had one in my yard BTW) - I really doubt approvals needed from the FedGov will be forthcoming for any larger plants.
Damn, when is the backyard version going to be available? I don’t want one, I *need* one.
