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Re: 113-ft blade falls off windmill in Fenner Wind Farm (upstate NY); same windmill fell over in 2009 |
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Posted by WillD on Sun Feb 14 20:21:05 2016, in response to Re: 113-ft blade falls off windmill in Fenner Wind Farm (upstate NY); same windmill fell over in 2009, posted by bingbong on Sat Feb 13 10:20:33 2016. But you said "including small nuclear plants like those utilized in other parts of the world". There are some alternative designs out there such as the UK's advanced gas reactor, the fast breeder reactors in France and Japan, and Canada's CANDU, but none of those can be described as small and all of them have some major shortcomings. The overwhelming majority of reactors around the world are essentially unchanged from the light water reactor designed for the USS Nautilus.Yes, there are designs for various liquid metal, molten salt, supercritical water, gas fast, and other reactors some of which hold great promise, but none of them have been put into practice as yet. So you can't exactly say "utilized" for any of them. And all reactors will use uranium or transuranic elements. Thorium is merely a fertile input which is converted into uranium before fissioning. Only a fast reactor avoids uranium, and it does so by consuming plutonium, hardly an element that inspires much confidence. Finally the small modular reactor push has little or nothing to do with "local" focus. It's more about using economies of scale present in building the reactors on an assembly line to build the reactor itself from smaller units. Chances are the plants would still end up with a 1 to 2 GW net output, but it'd be composed of four to eight modules of somewhere between 250 and 500MW. |
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