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Parent topics
Energy policy and global warming: results of various national policies on CO2 emissions [e]
Nuclear waste management: Storage and disposal of spent fuel and waste from nuclear power plants [e]- Cost of nuclear power: A discussion of various ways of measuring generating costs of Nuclear power [e]
Existing reactor designs
Molten salt reactor: A nuclear reactor using molten salt as the fuel or coolant [e]- Pressurized Water Reactor: uses atomic fission to heat water in a primary loop, then pipes the heated water to a heat exchanger to generate steam in a secondary loop, then uses the steam to drive a turbine; only water in the primary loop becomes radioactive. [e]
Proposed reactor designs
Advanced Reactors Information System[1] showcases many new reactor designs. Here are a few of them:
- FC-MSR_nuclear_reactor: Elysium's reactor with no moderator, capable of burning spent nuclear fuel and bomb cores. [e]
- High Temperature Gas-cooled Reactor: a medium-sized, next-gen, uranium-fueled, graphite-moderated, helium-cooled reactor that can provide heat for industrial processes, with electricity generation a secondary role [e]
- Molten chloride fast reactor: TerraPower's Molten Chloride Fast Reactor[2] [e]
- Natrium reactor: A fast reactor using molten sodium as the coolant. Development funded by Bill Gates. Like the MCSFR, capable of burning spent nuclear fuel. [e]
- NuScale small modular reactor: A smaller version of a standard Pressurized Water Reactor (PWR) with additional safety features.[3] [e]
- ThorCon nuclear reactor: A molten salt reactor (MSR) using a mix of uranium and thorium in a fluoride salt with a graphite moderator. [e]
- Very_high_temperature_reactor: A nuclear reactor using helium gas as a coolant, that might provide process heat for production of zero-carbon hydrogen from water.[4] [e]
- Fear of radiation: The science relating to public fear of radiation [e]
- Radiation Hazards: what everyone concerned about radiation and health should know [e]
- Nuclear_waste_management: Storage and disposal of spent fuel and waste from nuclear power plants [e]
- Nuclear_proliferation: the spread of nuclear weapons to nations and non-state actors [e]
- Cost_of_nuclear_power: A discussion of various ways of measuring generating costs of Nuclear power [e]
- Energy storage: technologies relevant to large-scale use of renewable but intermittent electric power [e]
- Mining of uranium and thorium: three-quarters of the world's uranium is mined in Kazakhstan, Canada, Australia and Namibia; many of today's mines in Canada and Australia are managed for safety and environmental concerns [e]
- Uranium fuel cycle: Add brief definition or description
- Thorium fuel cycle: Add brief definition or description
- Molten salt reactor: A nuclear reactor using molten salt as the fuel or coolant [e]
- Fast neutron reactor: a nuclear reactor in which the fission chain reaction is sustained by fast neutrons, as opposed to thermal neutrons, requiring fuel rich in fissile material and not requiring a neutron moderator. [e]
- Nuclear jokes: memes, video games, miscellaneous nonsense [e]
Background topics
- Nuclear fission: A reaction by which a nucleus of a suitable isotope of an element with a high atomic number splits into two nuclei of lower atomic numbers and one or more neutrons and a relatively large release of energy per atom. [e]
- Nuclear fusion: A process in which small atomic nuclei fuse and release energy. In a hydrogen bomb, fusion of deuterium and tritium (two isotopes of hydrogen) releases four times as much energy as the same mass of uranium in a fission bomb. [e]
- Uranium: A silvery-white metallic chemical element in the actinide series of the periodic table that has the symbol U and atomic number 92. [e]
- Plutonium: Mainly man-made radioactive element (Z = 94); its 239 isotope is fissionable and used in nuclear weapons; the 240 isotope is used in some nuclear power reactors [e]
- International Atomic Energy Agency: An international organization established in July 1957, which seeks to promote the peaceful use of nuclear energy and to inhibit its use for military purposes. [e]
Citizendium articles about opposition to nuclear energy or nuclear weapons
- Anti-nuclear movement: The sociological position of opposition to all or most nuclear engineering, rather than more focused objection to nuclear weapons or nuclear power generation [e]
- Anti-nuclear protest: Protest demonstrations in support of the anti-nuclear movement, more about a general opposition to nuclear engineering than to specific technologies; sometimes tied to even more general antiwar and other protest [e]
- Nuclear proliferation: the spread of nuclear weapons to nations and non-state actors [e]
- Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons: The principal worldwide agreement for controlling the spread of nuclear weapons and nuclear weapons technology, without inhibiting the peaceful use of nuclear energy [e]
Footnotes and References
- ↑ Advanced Reactors Information System showcases many new reactor designs.
- ↑ MCFR Fact Sheet https://www.terrapower.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/TP_2021_MCFR_Technology.pdf
- ↑ https://www.science.org/news/2019/02/smaller-safer-cheaper-one-company-aims-reinvent-nuclear-reactor-and-save-warming-planet
- ↑ https://www.gen-4.org/gif/jcms/c_9362/vhtr