NuScale merger to accelerate SMR commercialisation

[Marlin]

NuScale merger to accelerate SMR commercialisation


https://www.world-nuclear-news.org/Articles/NuScale-merger-to-accelerate-SMR-commercialisation

[GLW]

nine years later and these bilkers are still getting DOE grants to pad their 401ks?

yawn,........

No because,...

Allow me to elaborate:

The Atoms for Peace initiative was kicked off in a speech by Eisenhower in 1953,...

Shippingport went on the grid in 1957,...

By 1963 no less than 14 reactors had been put on the grid,...

That was then,...

This is now,...

The combined years of US government funded development of pebble bed reactors at MIT, University of California-Berkeley, General Atomics and Idaho National Labs exceeds forty years with no pebble bed reactors on the grid in the US of A,...

Fusion?!?!?,...Sandia, Los Alamos, PPPL, NIF, LLE, AERB, Texas A & M, Brigham Young , Stanford , U of M, UU et al to the tune of over 200 combined years and 500 billion dollars in grants and experiments with no fusion reactors on the grid in the US of A,...

Even the 4S reactors which are already done, all the technicals are a packaged deal looking for a buyer, but no, oh no no no no no, the 4S reactors have been looked at yet again, using US taxpayer monies, examined and contemplated by LLNL, ANL, and, of course, U of C-Berkeley, dissected (literally and metaphorically) for over eight years to the tune of better than 150 million dollars and once again, there are no 4S reactors on the grid in the US of A,...

From another tangent:

The current POTUS shelved Yucca, he shelved any viable long term solution to spent fuel storage, there is no national repository and likely never will be, Yucca is being dismantled as we type and read, Yucca will never be certified again for less than too many billions more that we quite simply do not have and should not be charging to any unborn generation's credit card,...

This government's influence is to talk a good game, throw gratuitous research dollars at the academia-national lab complex, all the while stuffing a cork in the expulsion end of the nuclear alimentary canal, a blockage which will lead to it's unavoidable death from it's own wastes,...

            The vultures hover,...



almost forgot,...

this public money,...

NuScale wins second round of DOE SMR funding under FOA

http://atomicinsights.com/nuscale-wins-second-round-doe-smr-funding-foa/

with a less nuanced description here:

http://portlandtribune.com/ttt/89-news/252644-121028-nuscale-power-tigards-nuclear-energy-company-prepares-for-2020

...The company has made some major strides in the past few years. In 2013, it received a $217 million grant from the U.S. Department of Energy to design and license a nuclear power plant.

The company is spending about $12 million a month to finish up its application to the NRC and has filed more than 180 patents related to the technology, McGough said....

let me play this out,....

my company gets a 217 million dollar grant which I (er, my company) spends at 12 million per month,...

I get to live good on the corporate credit card and pad my 401K for 18 months,...

I also get to approach Rolls Royce in Britain to build it and then sell the finished product to the Chinese,...

oh yeah, I also get to build a pilot pant on government property and forego the nightmare of a private landed OCA,...

after all, the Chinese would like to know the thing actually works before they buy it,....

you call it pessimism,....

I call it "Living in realsville",...

[fiveeleven]

Well done Mr. W. The trend continues. New construction of a salty reactor on the horizon with the government dough awarded to a company that is currently performing at a less than stellar level in new construction. I remember Doc Rencher speaking about salty reactors. RCS turbidity kits at the ready and of course maintained by ex-ELTs.

[Marlin]

Well done Mr. W. The trend continues. New construction of a salty reactor on the horizon with the government dough awarded to a company that is currently performing at a less than stellar level in new construction. I remember Doc Rencher speaking about salty reactors. RCS turbidity kits at the ready and of course maintained by ex-ELTs.

Hmmm... turbidity kits were a qualitative analysis that showed the presence of cloride. Not sure a turbidity kit would be useful. A titration to determine the amount would seem more appropriate, or better yet spectroscopy that was not available at sea. "RIP" Doc Rencher he made class a lot of fun, much better than any of the Navy instructors, but then he wrote a lot of the manuals we operated with.

[fiveeleven]

Thanks for the basic chemistry coaching. Never one to pass up on a coaching opportunity - chloride in, cloride out.