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Post by sigurdur on Sept 23, 2015 22:04:55 GMT
Yep. It has become crony capitalism, green but stupid.
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Post by Andrew on Sept 24, 2015 2:59:42 GMT
"TerraPower’s traveling wave reactor (TWR) is a Generation IV, liquid sodium-cooled fast reactor based on existing fast reactor technologies"I do not fancy the chances of that kind of technology being implemented in the USA
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Post by Andrew on Sept 24, 2015 3:01:54 GMT
"TerraPower’s traveling wave reactor (TWR) is a Generation IV, liquid sodium-cooled fast reactor based on existing fast reactor technologies"I do not fancy the chances of that kind of nuclear technology being implemented in the USA where as far I am aware there has not been a new reactor built since the 1970's?
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Post by tobyglyn on Sept 24, 2015 9:22:57 GMT
Andrew, Care to explain why? Well, what if it worked as advertised - big problem for anti-nuke big green!!!
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Post by Ratty on Sept 24, 2015 9:29:42 GMT
"TerraPower’s traveling wave reactor (TWR) is a Generation IV, liquid sodium-cooled fast reactor based on existing fast reactor technologies"I do not fancy the chances of that kind of technology being implemented in the USA ... or in Germany .... or Japan .... or Ukraine ?
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Post by Andrew on Sept 24, 2015 10:08:10 GMT
Even when cold, solid Sodium bursts into flames when exposed to air, and while the designers must have considered the implications of hot liquid sodium exiting the reactor in an accident, it still seems to me a scary method of cooling a nuclear reactor.
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Post by sigurdur on Sept 25, 2015 14:22:27 GMT
This board just keeps getting better! I call folks all the time if I have questions. Now others are doing it!!!!! I love it!!!
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Post by ebrainsh on Sept 25, 2015 15:12:03 GMT
Code/Sig...I've been energized!!! I have a phone to!!!
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Post by Andrew on Sept 30, 2015 18:09:13 GMT
Andreww, Wanted you to know I haven't heard back from them (TerraPower) yet so I called them this morning. Presumably you were calling them to know how they were going to deal with sodium leaks and major accidents involving catastrophic failures. Experimental sodium cooled reactors have been around for decades so they will have answers. I just do not like the idea of having a coolant that can burst into flames if air reaches or explode if water touches it.
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Post by phydeaux2363 on Oct 1, 2015 4:04:30 GMT
Andreww, Wanted you to know I haven't heard back from them (TerraPower) yet so I called them this morning. Presumably you were calling them to know how they were going to deal with sodium leaks and major accidents involving catastrophic failures. Experimental sodium cooled reactors have been around for decades so they will have answers. I just do not like the idea of having a coolant that can burst into flames if air reaches or explode if water touches it. I'm with Mr Andrew on this one. Sodium cooled reactors are simply too dangerous. Google what happened at the Japanese Monju Plant in the 1990s. Sodium is way too unstable if the plumbing leaks and allows contact with air or, God forbid, water. Liquid fluoride systems have no such issues, althought they too have technical issues that need to be overcome. Anyone know why the Seatle group is cooling with sodium?
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Post by acidohm on Oct 9, 2015 16:22:46 GMT
Code....have you ever gone up to a hornets nest with big stick and too much curiosity???
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Post by missouriboy on Oct 9, 2015 17:12:08 GMT
Code....have you ever gone up to a hornets nest with big stick and too much curiosity??? Only once!
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Post by acidohm on Oct 9, 2015 17:42:53 GMT
Ouch!!
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