Reactor Renaissance  

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Teschler, Leland

Jenis: Article from Bulletin/Magazine - ilmiah internasional
Dalam koleksi: Machine Design (Soft Copy ada dalam http://search.proquest.com/) vol. 83 no. 5 (Mar. 2011), page 50-53.
Topik: Nuclear-power industry; research; reactor design; traveling-wave reactor

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There is an old joke sometimes told in the nuclear-power industry: Trying to sell nuclear power is like trying to sell anthrax. That's because it has taken close to 30 years for the nuclear industry to get past the black eye it sustained from reactor emergencies at Three Mile Island (TMI) in the US and Chernobyl in the Ukraine. But nuclear experts say the conditions that led to problems at TMI and the catastrophe at Chernobyl will never happen again. In 2006, the research firm Intellectual Ventures, Bellevue, WA, launched a subsidiary called TerraPower LLC to perfect the concept of a nuclear-waste-fueled reactor. TerraPower figures the stockpiles of waste represent enough fuel to generate $100 trillion worth of electricity with its reactor design. TerraPower's design is actually a refinement of an idea first conceived in the 1950s. TerraPower calls it a traveling-wave reactor and has developed TWR designs for generating 300 MWe and ~1,000 MWe.

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