Tuesday, March 23, 2010
Yay Chu (again!)
Energy secy Chu is openly pushing in THE RIGHT DIRECTION!
As Polistra happily noted a year ago, there is in fact a Silver Bullet solution for the whole energy problem, which even looks like a Silver Bullet.
Hyperion, based in Los Alamos, was the first American firm to commercialize these small nuke power plants; Chinese and Jap companies have also been forging ahead in the field. China, the most sane and normal country in the world, has already installed some.
Now Chu intends to load up and shoot some silver bullets, though he's still painfully slow on the draw:
Energy secy Chu is openly pushing in THE RIGHT DIRECTION!
As Polistra happily noted a year ago, there is in fact a Silver Bullet solution for the whole energy problem, which even looks like a Silver Bullet.
Hyperion, based in Los Alamos, was the first American firm to commercialize these small nuke power plants; Chinese and Jap companies have also been forging ahead in the field. China, the most sane and normal country in the world, has already installed some.
Now Chu intends to load up and shoot some silver bullets, though he's still painfully slow on the draw:
“Small modular reactors would be less than one-third the size of current plants. They have compact designs and could be made in factories and transported to sites by truck or rail. SMRs would be ready to ‘plug and play’ upon arrival,” he writes.¶ 3:41 PM
“Right now we are exploring a partnership with industry to obtain design certification from the Nuclear Regulatory Commission for one or two designs. These SMRs are based on proven light-water reactor technologies and could be deployed in about 10 years.”
