DOE and UAMPS sign agreement for siting at INL
At the 12th annual Platts Nuclear Energy Conference, John Kotek, the Acting Assistant Secretary of Energy for Nuclear Energy just made a major announcement. Yesterday, February 17, 2016 Rick Provencher...
View ArticleBechtel and BWXT have announced an acceleration of Generation mPower
On March 4, 2016, in a press release issued from Reston, VA, Bechtel and BWX Technologies (BWXT) announced that they would be accelerating their Generation mPower small modular reactor project. Bechtel...
View ArticleBechtel will “pursue” accelerated mPower development
I’ve relearned a valuable lesson — read press releases and other PR material closely, paying special attention to wiggle words. On Friday, March 4, Bechtel issued a press release titled Bechtel, BWXT...
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No obstacles prevent China from rapidly building floating nuclear power plants
1968 photo of the Sturgis, the first nuclear power barge, in the Panama Canal. It provided electricity to operate the locks from 1968-1975 Credible entities in China have begun lining up the supply...
View ArticleNuScale Getting Ready For Design Certification Submission
NuScale remains on track to submit a high quality design certification application to the Nuclear Regulatory Commission by the end of 2016. That statement might surprise people who follow small modular...
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History and promise of high temperature gas cooled reactors
By: Diarmuid Foley A small modular nuclear reactor to replace coal plants could be on the market within 5 years. In 2014, the Generation IV international forum[1] confirmed the Very High Temperature...
View ArticleTerrestrial Energy Announces Plans To License Their Integral Molten Reactor...
Yesterday, Terrestrial Energy USA (TEUSA) informed the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) that they planned to begin pre-license application discussions with a goal of being ready to file a...
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History Made as NuScale Files First SMR Application With U.S. Nuke Regulators
NuScale COO Mike McGough watching press fill the room at the Newseum Two years ago, NuScale committed to filing a license application for its eponymous SMR design with U.S. regulators by the end of...
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NRC accepted NuScale’s DCA. Will it complete its review on time? Estimated...
Introduction to NuScale’s control room. Yesterday, the Nuclear Regulatory Commission accepted NuScale’s 12,000 page design certification application (DCA). That action starts the safety determination...
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Bechtel And BWXT Quietly Terminate mPower Reactor Project
Generation mPower Announcement Press Conference. July 14, 2010 Generation mPower, one of the early leaders in the development of small modular reactors (SMR), has decided to fully terminate its...
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Clean and Doable Liquid Fission (LF) Energy Roadmap for Powering Our World
By: Robert Hargraves and Chris Uhlik Introduction This essay responds to an article by Stanford Professor Mark Z. Jacobson et al, 100% Clean and Renewable Wind, Water, and Sunlight (WWS) All-Sector...
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Can Gas Turbines Using Nuclear Fuel Change The Energy Game?
Mobile low power number 1 (ML-1). Closed cycle nuclear gas turbine circa 1962.Credit: U.S. Army Disclosure: Rod Adams founded the now defunct Adams Atomic Engines, Inc. His company developed nuclear...
View ArticleUrenco, Bruce Power Sign MOU To Develop U-Battery for Canada
Urenco, Bruce Power and AMEC NSS Limited recently announced that they had signed an MOU to cooperate in the design, licensing and development of Urenco’s U-Battery micro nuclear system for the Canadian...
View ArticleNuScale announces a major step in the NRC’s review of its passively safe SMR
NuScale, a leader in the increasingly competitive field of advanced nuclear reactor design, has announced that the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) reviewers issued a document that formally...
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Fission heated gas turbines address MIT Future of Nuclear challenges. Easier,...
Addressing Recommendations of MIT Future of Nuclear Energy In a Carbon Constrained World The Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) is a world renowned institution that has produced thousands of...
View ArticleML-1 Mobile Power System: Reactor in a Box
This is a modest update of an article first published in November 1996. DOD’s recent issuance of an RFI for mobile, modest power output atomic power systems shows that the challenges that were clearly...
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Project Dilithium – Part II. Enabling technologies
Building mobile nuclear power plants will be a challenge, but successfully meeting the challenges could alter the future trajectory of the energy and fuels supply industry.ML-1 shown being off-loaded...
View ArticleWhat exploded in Russia on Aug 8? My estimate is a (chemical) booster rocket...
A cruise missile with a nuclear reactor heated turbofan engine and a liquid fueled booster rocket is the most likely description of the Russian developmental weapons system that exploded while being...
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Atomic Show #276 – HolosGen Claudio Filippone and Chip Martin
HolosGen has attacked the nuclear power plant cost and schedule challenge from the opposite direction chosen by many nuclear reactor developers. Claiming to be agnostic about the reactor specifics –...
View ArticleAtomic Show #277 – Simon Wakter, pro-nuclear engineer in an ambivalent country
Simon Wakter is a strongly pro-nuclear engineer in a country that passed a referendum officially phasing out nuclear energy since several years before he was born. He has to round up to be called a...
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