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>The hope is to have it operating by the end of the decade. Wow the building time even for this new style,modular nuclear plant is still takes that long time? Just curious, why an American company builds a nuclear plant in a foreign country with US government 'subsidising' them, do not build it in US soils?
Why are they putting it in a region that has Earthquakes? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_earthquakes_in_Romania
Why are they putting it in a region that has Earthquakes? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_earthquakes_in_Romania
Because it's where it's needed. Because of geography Romania has off shore wind, rooftop solar and nuclear as low carbon energy sources, (Hydro has 30% of the market and new dams are v difficult due to environmental concerns) All of these are needed, and small scale nuclear is a lot less susceptible to meltdown events due to loss of cooling. Earthquake resistant structures have been built for 50 years, so this is not…
Even your processor is "susceptible to meltdown events due to loss of cooling". It has some protection, of course, unless this reactor which does not exist even on paper.
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Yes, but no: > In the late 1990s, three additional backup diesel generators for Units 2 and 4 were placed in new buildings located higher on the hillside, to comply with new regulatory requirements. All six units were given access to these diesel generators, but the switching stations that sent power from these backup generators to the reactors' cooling systems for Units 1 through 5 were still located in the poorly p…
You missed my point. Despite all the planning surrounding the earthquakes in Japan, one of them still did damage in an unexpected way. For every nuclear catastrophe, you can easily say that if something was done differently, it would have been averted. Well, it wasn't.
Fukushima Daini, which is on the same coast, with the same operating environment and was hit with the same wave - was shut down successfully.
EDIT: this is just an example what the earthquakes are not a big problem for a nuclear power stations.
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> but never true Ehhhh, sorta? Wind power can be useful as a base load generator if you over provision by a large amount. But the problem is that during the summer months you will get ridiculously high generation and then in winter it drops like a rock. What's worse is that solar follows this same trend. Typically pricing per kwh is averaging across the year. But during the winter you will have terrible shortfalls. S…
You build out a few days or weeks of storage, and also transmission lines. Where it looks like your storage is going to run dry, you order a shipment of ammonia to burn, synthesized at any solar farm in the tropics, or a wind farm anywhere. The appealing quality of synthetic fuel like ammonia is that there is always an eager market for as much as you can produce, so once your local tankage is full, excess power produ…
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You build out a few days or weeks of storage, and also transmission lines. Where it looks like your storage is going to run dry, you order a shipment of ammonia to burn, synthesized at any solar farm in the tropics, or a wind farm anywhere. The appealing quality of synthetic fuel like ammonia is that there is always an eager market for as much as you can produce, so once your local tankage is full, excess power produ…
Synthetic fuels produced from atmospheric carbon and cheap solar energy make sense. I'm cautiously optimistic about Prometheus Fuels. https://prometheusfuels.com/
Synthetic hydrocarbons will be used for a long time where those others can't be made to work, such as old cars and chainsaws, and air transport until LH2 fleets and infrastructure are built out; or are used too rarely to merit upgrading, like back-up generators.
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Synthetic fuels produced from atmospheric carbon and cheap solar energy make sense. I'm cautiously optimistic about Prometheus Fuels. https://prometheusfuels.com/
Synthetic hydrocarbons will always cost more than synthetic ammonia and synthetic hydrogen. Of the two, ammonia is more practical to transport. Synthetic hydrocarbons will be used for a long time where those others can't be made to work, such as old cars and chainsaws, and air transport until LH2 fleets and infrastructure are built out; or are used too rarely to merit upgrading, like back-up generators.
Does anybody have some insight into the performance and safety of this type of design? Romanian media is mostly silent on the topic. When it does happen to come up, the conversation seems to get stuck either at "the Americans are finally coming to save us" or "the globalist elites are experimenting on us". Neither position is helpful or informative.
There is no safety. This reactor does not exist. Not even a POC. I fear this will be another Bechtel story.
My fear as well. But what are we (Romanians) paying for this time? We're already in NATO and the EU...
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Synthetic hydrocarbons will always cost more than synthetic ammonia and synthetic hydrogen. Of the two, ammonia is more practical to transport. Synthetic hydrocarbons will be used for a long time where those others can't be made to work, such as old cars and chainsaws, and air transport until LH2 fleets and infrastructure are built out; or are used too rarely to merit upgrading, like back-up generators.
I guess we'll see which ones pan out. I'm hoping for both as long as we stop dumping carbon into the atmosphere. Although I'm not so sure about the cost. Prometheus is looking at pretty inexpensive prices per gallon.
It is hard to know which are like Energy Vault, just there to scam investors, and which are onto something. I bet Terraform Industries is, at least, on the level. Whether they have the sauce to compete is a whole other question, but it will be a seller's market for a long time. That means whoever does it cheapest gets most profit.
Probably whoever manufactures equipment cheapest wins, even if their thing is not the cheapest/most efficient to use.
Why are they putting it in a region that has Earthquakes? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_earthquakes_in_Romania