Posted on 04/01/2021 1:40:14 PM PDT by shotgun
What could be the nation’s first commercial advanced nuclear power reactor would be built and operated near Richland under a partnership agreement signed Thursday.
X-energy, of Rockville, Md., will work with Energy Northwest of Richland and Grant County PUD to develop, build and operate an 80-megawatt reactor, the Xe-100, on land already leased by Energy Northwest at the Hanford nuclear reservation in Eastern Washington.
(Excerpt) Read more at tri-cityherald.com ...
“The TRi Energy Partnership could be operating a reactor within seven years, and the project could be scaled up to four-reactor, 320-megawatt power plant.”
Good to know, I’ve previously seen estimates of 20-30 years to get a nuclear reactor in America planned, built, opened.
In Washington...
Earthquakes, subduction zone, huge cold war nuclear Superfund site...
That Washington?
Sure, why should any of that be an issue for constructing a new nuclear power plant?
This is the problem we’ve faced with nuclear power in America: every time somebody wants to build one, an army of people show up saying “Okay fine, but you can’t build it HERE”. There is no perfect site for construction. Each has its own set of challenges that need to be covered in the design. But there are very few places on Earth you can’t safely operate a properly designed nuclear power plant. And we need them badly.
The alternative is to sit back and hope solar and wind can do enough with battery storage. It probably can’t. So we need something to handle base load. Nuclear is our best option for true energy independence.
Yes, that Washington.
Sounds like their going to build them on the same site as the now terminated WPPSS Plants 1 & 4. Should be able to take advantage of the massive concrete foundations that were pours for the original reactor buildings.
Being located next to Plant 2, now called Columbia Generating Station, this plant will be like a 1/12 scale model based upon power output.
China gets their nuclear power plants done in 5-7 years from construction start to plant operation. But they don’t coddle the environmentalist wackos like we do. And they don’t wrap endless red tape around every single step. They make a decision to do it and they do it.
This is why they’re beating us.
Thorium molten fluoride
“...I’ve previously seen estimates of 20-30 years
to get a nuclear reactor in America planned, built, opened...”
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There are two under construction right now in Georgia.
“Sure, why should any of that be an issue for constructing a new nuclear power plant?”
I’m sorta surprized Washington State went for it actually.
You’re thinking of western Washington. Eastern Washington is one of the least disaster prone areas in the country. No earthquakes, tornados, hurricanes, etc.
Good news, and while you’re at it build more Tridents.
Our last disaster we had here in Eastern Washington was when elected Jay Inlsee to Congress 1992. He was quickly voted out in 1994 and then ran back to Bainbridge Island until he was able to get re-elected to a retiring democrat’s seat for another 6 terms and now is our idiotic governor.
We don’t build the Tridents over here, we just take their decommissioned reactors out in the desert and bury them.
You beat me to it. That whoops fiasco can now be turned to use instead of a total waste.
I have never completely understood why the Greens fight so hard against nukes. Nuclear power generation facilities encompass many of the things that those woke idiots scream about ie:
- small footprint
- they don’t kill birds
- they are quiet
- they produce far more power than anything else
I guess I should chalk it up to the fact that most leftists are intellectually divorced from reality.
Where are they built, if any nowadays?
Well, sometimes the water feed valve gets stuck and the water is almost up to the steam lines (yeah, silly, I know).
We gotta get rid of that water!
This one says the water level is high!
This one says it’s low!
Are you filming?
Probably find this VHS as their source of information. Well, it had the Toyota guy, so...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nemYBeT4aQY
“O.K., we’re off the line; disconnected from the grid”
LOL - who wrote that? (guess they had to explain it for the audience LOL)
Aren’t they built on Groton Connecticut?
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