Micro Nuclear Reactor II

Micro Nuclear Reactor

“http://www.shortnews.com/start.cfm?id=67210”

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Toshiba plans to begin selling them in the US in 2009!

The only picture so far...

Note to NASA:

PLEASE take one or two of these to the Moon! (on the first trip)

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Alaska village moves to micro Nuke

Toshiba offered Galena a free reactor if the town would pay the operating costs, estimated at 10 cents a kilowatt-hour, about the national average for power. In December, the City Council voted unanimously to take it.

Public Information and Outreach in Galena, Alaska
http://www.utnl.jp/~rohonbu/PBNC/1-1.pdf

Galena, Alaska still working to get permit for nuclear reactor as of November, 2007.

KIYU is the radio station in Galena.

http://www.kiyu.com/

Good 'ol KIYU radio!

Will this be a creeping upswing in nuclear power supply, or stall out in popular resistance reactions worldwide?

Henry>>>

Great find and read, I can finally get my design mind into automatic pilot to conceptually think and draw with a renewed urban, rural or remote enthusiasm, this is wonderful news to the urbanist's and of course the Mars and Moon missions of the next decades or so...I'm glad I bought Toshiba products several times, these folks are brilliant.

Lets get some 'Stones' out...time to rejoice.

Gimme Shelter!!!

yt
dx

Windscale, 3 Mile Island, Chenobyl, Hunterston, Sellafield, Exelon Illinois..... tick tick tick

If one were to take all the polluting waste that has been emitted by coal fired power stations since we started to generate electricity and somehow work out how many people have been killed indirectly by all the waste products then we would find that nuclear power is by far the best alternative. The new designs really are very clean producers of Electricity. Oh but what about the waste you say. Well, if we ever wanted to get a space industry ramped up so that we could go to space cheaply even to Mars, then we could use the SYNROC technology to immobilize the waste and then fire the blocks of glass into the SUN. this would get rid of the waste permanently. Even if we had a few mishaps during launch the canisters could be retrieved and sent again without any earthly contamination. This would produce cost savings getting heavy loads into space, great for missions to Mars and beyond.
Have a look here for what SYNROC is all about.
http://www.uic.com.au/nip21.htm
Nuclear is our only hope for the future Without it we are doomed.
DM

dx, I’m so happy for you! I hope your sketch-pad goes crazy with new designs for habitat, now that you can see mankind cut loose from that pesky power grid.

I hope society is now finally ready to throw off those artificial constraints so stupidly accepted thanks to Jane Fonda and her Luddite followers so many years ago.

Even the bunnyhuggers are finally waking up to the promise of nuclear. A future of cheap GREEN power is just around the corner!

Galena continues its push to free itself from diesel with nuclear power

Alaska Journal of Commerce ^ | September 10, 2006 | Margaret Bauman

"http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1699798/posts"

http://www.iser.uaa.alaska.edu/Publications/Galena_power_draftfinal_15Dec2004.pdf

Henry>>>

Without a highjack here please see this>>>

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Is this to put a damper on nuclear power by Toshiba?

I sure trust it will not.

yt
dx

I think all is well, dx:

Proposed Galena nuclear design goes before the NRC

Fri, October 26, 2007
Posted in Alaska News

The nuclear reactor that could one day power Galena was in the spotlight this week at the Nuclear Regulatory Commission near Washington, DC. Toshiba and its American subsidiary Westinghouse met with nuclear regulators to summarize the work they have done so far on their innovative “4-S” nuclear reactor design, and to announce plans to turn in a formal license
application in about a year.
Tim Bodony, KIYU - Galena

“http://aprn.org/2007/10/26/proposed-galena-nuclear-design-goes-before-the-nrc/”

PHYSICAL SECURITY FOR THE GALENA 4S
NUCLEAR POWER GENERATION FACILITY

Rev 02, 3/12/2007

V CONCLUSIONS
This paper describes the inherently safe design features of the 4S NPF and security
enhancements incorporated into the 4S design. These features make the 4S NPF an
unattractive target either for sabotage or theft and diversion of nuclear materials. The
many inherently protective features of the 4S would justify adding a fifth “S” for
“SECURE” to the description of the facility.
The many protective features of the 4S as a practical matter make it very unlikely that a
terrorist attack aimed the plant’s nuclear materials would be successful. The fuel is never
removed from the core and is maintained within the sealed reactor vessel, along with the
highly radioactive sodium coolant, for the entire 30-year design life of the plant. Access
to the fuel can be obtained only by using a heavy-duty crane to remove the large, heavy,
reinforced concrete cap to the reactor vessel. Additionally, the reactor vessel and the
enclosing containment guard vessel are located in their own underground silo-like
structure, which further protects against unauthorized access to the 4S nuclear fuel.
Further, the nuclear fuel of the 4S reactor is designed to be proliferation resistant. The 4S
fuel cannot be used to produce a nuclear weapon without undergoing significant isotopic
enrichment, which is an extremely costly and technologically challenging process. If the
4S nuclear fuel were to fall into the wrong hands, it could not be easily converted or
enriched to a weapons-grade material.

http://www.roe.com/pdfs/technical/Galena/20070312_Physical%20Security_Whitepaper_Rev02.pdf

dx, here is an 870 page Jan. 2007 IAEA document with lots of good info on the current status of small nuclear power stations intended for wide distribution all over the Earth. The Toshiba 4S is well covered.

Status of Small Reactor Designs
Without On-Site Refuelling

http://www.iaea.org/OurWork/ST/NE/NENP/NPTDS/Downloads/SMR_CRP1_SRWOSR/2007_new/1536.pdf

Galena: Cold Fission

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According to the reference of reply 14, the small reactors like the Toshiba 4S can “cogenerate” lots of gaseous oxygen and hydrogen.

This sounds ideal for Moon and Mars colonies, where the hydrogen can be rocket fuel for the ride home.

Henry>>>

thanks for the site in 14, I'll read it in a few days time.

yt
dx

Following the links in the preceding replies leads to a variety of research and news items, and offers a glimpse of how poorly we know of, and use, our resources for heating and understanding our climate even in our own planets arctic cold region.
An article reports a surprising 'boiling methane zone' within a lake on Alaska's North Slope. The lake name was not stated.
Suggested as a possible natural gas leak of natural source, but left as an open question, the arctic has inherent sources of power for use in heating which are apparently issuing into the lower atmosphere and affecting our entire planetary environment whether we utilize the materials or not.
One town claims it will be entirely powered by wind shortly.
Nuclear versus inherent power availability may be an issue.
Some of the local Alaskan towns are setting up wind and solar power systems as an alternative to nuclear as further use of local energy supply types.

The micro Nuclear Reactor?

Well, I can saftly say that WE ARE ALL GOING TO DIE!!!!!!!

Yeah...I hope this is a joke, because if it isn't then we are all screwed.

Nuclear reactors are safe nuclear bomb, but a few modifacations and it is death. Good thing that they are gaurded and secure.

Oh wait, now we have micro nuclear reactors. Ungaurded and unsecure. Remember 9/11? Well, once the terrorists get their hands on these bad boys, which now they can get one easy, 9/11 will be forgotten because it wont compare to the nuclear annialation that is to come, ether that or we are all dead.

This micro nuclear reactor is the worst idea ever.

Nuclear reactors, in particular small ones, have a safety record far better than any alternative technology.

Please read

“http://www.hawaiireporter.com/story.aspx?188299ea-ddb7-47bd-9287-965443b089cf”