Comments on: Nuclear Power: What’s Next.

By: A Roundup of Everything I’ve Written on Fukushima (for SLOG) | One Stop News Stand

Tue, 29 Mar 2011 08:02:30 +0000

[...] 3/27/2011Radiation From Fukushima, in Seattle, Tells the Story (You might also be interested in my earlier series (circa 2008) on nuclear power, including the physics of nuclear power, how nuclear power plants work, radiation, nuclear waste, a review of the prior nuclear plant disasters, and future nuclear power plant designs.) [...]

By: Mike

Mike — Mon, 12 Jul 2010 15:46:40 +0000

Why make Nuclear Power safer?? It has been 40 years and no accidents. The industry is so heavily regulated now that all the plants are operating on 1950′s technologies. Efficiency is not the issue in the reactor plant, as even the best turbine is only about 35% efficient. Higher enrichment of the fuel means higher rad levels in waste products, and even higher costs on decommissioning. Thorium might be the better path to persue.

By: Sciencia | Archive

Sciencia | Archive — Sat, 29 Aug 2009 21:15:32 +0000

[...] we have another option: we can build better reactors. Normally nuclear power plants use lightly enriched uranium. Heavily enriched fuels (that release [...]

By: nancy

nancy — Thu, 12 Feb 2009 16:14:34 +0000

First commerical gas-cooled reactor nuclear power plant will be operated commerically in China before 2015.
If it success, it will be the main reactor type to develop for the next.

By: Patrick

Patrick — Sat, 05 Jul 2008 14:28:20 +0000

Interessting suggestions. In my oppinion, we need to go every step making nuclear power safer. As we depend on it, since more safer power forms have been developed.

By: Jonathan

Jonathan — Fri, 20 Jun 2008 19:08:25 +0000

Ben,

Thanks for pointing out the broken link. I’ve replaced it with a working one.

By: Ben

Ben — Fri, 20 Jun 2008 13:58:20 +0000

link to “gas-cooled variant” generation IV reactor is broken. Does anyone have another link?

By: NM

NM — Fri, 20 Jun 2008 00:24:42 +0000

Molten sodium, dreamy? More like a nightmare to this engineer. Molten+sodium, two more ways to go wrong on top of already complex, sensitive systems.

By: Liberal Radio: Yes Nukes at Bruno and the Professor

Liberal Radio: Yes Nukes at Bruno and the Professor — Sun, 08 Jun 2008 22:27:15 +0000

[...] Golob concludes his six-part investigation into nuclear power with a call for more research into next-generation reactors: Where are these plants? The ideas [...]

By: Pluto Boy

Pluto Boy — Sat, 07 Jun 2008 12:04:59 +0000

Building an electricity system more and more reliant on nuclear power is risky simply from the standpoint that if a generic accident happens then the whole network could go off line. One serious generic accident in France and they will have to rely on the electricity they import from other countries. As far as sodium-cooled fast reactors go, the current example of this technology to examine is the Monju reactor in Japan – it had a coolant leak in 1995, which corroded equipment on the inside of the plant, and despite best efforts they still haven’t been able to restart it! So much for 21st century sodium-cooled reactors. In any case, the first place to invest billions about to be pumped into nukes is conservation and efficiency, where you get far more bang for the buck.