Obama triples nuke loan Guarantees

NUKE ROCKY44 · Senior Member

Obama triples nuke loan Guarantees

GoogleNaut · Guru

...or just plunk $150 billion into an account for accelerating dedicated nuclear plant construction, (that's good for what ten or fifteen large plants?) Build the pressure vessels, steam generators, condensors and control systems on an assembly line basis...

I agree the small, mini nuke plants are a good bet too. I also think that Hyperion Power, Inc. uranium hydride reactor technology is very intruiging. Dubbed an 'atomic battery' it is compact, modular, and pretty secure...

It's also fairly inexpensive:

http://www.hyperionpowergeneration.com/

-- Edited by GoogleNaut on Sunday 31st of January 2010 03:37:39 PM

NUKE ROCKY44 · Senior Member

I would rather use the $150 B on fast neutron reactors providing 80-100% burn-up as a final back end of recycling fuel treatment and on the following:

At the front end I would still use pyroprocessing and UREX+1 since you can sell this processed nuke fuel to burn in relatively inexpensive modular reactors worldwide. The fuel here is weapons proliferation resistant it would take huge $$ to weaponize this fuel. Even MOXing 'hot rad' fuel should be burned in alternate designed reactors.

This isn't meant to discredit n. American nuclear industry. In the United States and Canada, this used fuel is stored, while in countries such as the Russia, United Kingdom, France, Japan and India the fuel is reprocessed to remove the fission products, and the fuel can then be re-used. N. Am. emphasis is on mine-burn-bury uranium.

In the long run you provide efficent nuke services and products and a healthy nuke industry worldwide.

PS. on the mini reactor I would go with Thorium hydride

John · Senior Member

Since Obama believes in AGW his policies untimately will have move in the direction of nuclear energy. You just can't power the whole country with solar and wind.