Now that our USA President has announced that he would like to see us go with new nuclear power plants, I wanted to get the input from peers.
I have not seen any input about this from my peers yet.
In the 1990s this was explored and many companies came up with innovative designs. I read about all of this, in the journals, and all companies went with the same thing, where a new nuclear power plant would be built in a factory, just like a rocket engine. It would be just like a battery. The entire plant would be assembled in say, Pennsylvania and delivered to Utah and just put in place like a battery.
Now I know that many who would read this will say why not put more energy into solar energy and other alternative energy sources? I still say that it is way expensive, in spite of the fact that those technologies are all cheaper than they used to be! Alternative energy will come alive, in the future, I think, but they cannot run even one automobile factory in Detroit yet, much less a whole city the size of Detroit (much less NYC)!
We are so rich though in people who know about this and we need a bridge. It is time that we trust ourselves. I say give the companies time to develop what they have gained in this new knowledge, but we need a bridge to keep us going. We already know how to decommission to the nth degree.
Let us give all the fast reactors a chance.
Americans, no matter what party they join, believe in freedom.
I have seen the basic plant designs and I believe in them, no matter which one becomes a fact of life.
I know that this will cause controversy, but I just had to post my ideas. I have learn so much from what my peers post on this site!
Let us all talk about this! What do you think?