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Missing the Boat
by Andrew McCaskey
Nuclear Power is Getting Shorted
In all the green enthusiasm, it’s a shame that we are not keeping up with the technology in nuclear power that has a lot more promise of safe and clean power than the imagination of “Clean Coal” lobbyists. It’s time that we put some effort and political capital into this technology.
The MIT Technology press had an announcement of a privately funded company with the technology of “Traveling Wave” Reactor, which used the common U-238, a very thin film of U-235 fissile material in a sealed. liquid sodium cooled reaction that ran, converting the fuel into plutonium P239 that grew at about a cm per year as the “wave” moved through the core of the reactor. The units would in theory run for hundreds of years before they would have to be serviced. The first units could go on line in 2020. Why it would take eleven years to commercialize is another question. If the technology questions are solved, the regulatory barriers should be a lot easier to remove.
After all we dumped more than a few $Billion in the Ethanol scam. Why don’t we put some funds into 21st Century nuclear power ? We are going to need every Megawatt we can find.
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