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Problem-Free Nuclear Power and Global Change


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Nuclear fission power reactors represent a solution-in-principle to all aspects of global change possibly induced by inputting of either particulate or carbon or sulfur oxides into the Earth's atmosphere. Of proven technological feasibility, they presently produce high-grade heat for electricity generation, space heating and industrial process-driving around the world, without emitting greenhouse gases or atmospheric particulates. However, a substantial number of major issues currently stand between nuclear power implemented with light-water reactors and widespread substitution for large stationary fossil fuel-fired systems, including long-term fuel supply, adverse public perceptions regarding both long-term and acute operational safety, plant decommissioning, fuel reprocessing, radwaste disposal, fissile materials diversion to military purposes and – perhaps most seriously – cost.

We describe a GW-scale, high-temperature nuclear reactor heat source that can operate with no human intervention for a few decades and that may be widely acceptable, since its safety features are simple, inexpensive and easily understood. We provide first-level details of a reactor system designed to satisfy these requirements. Such a back-solving approach to realizing large-scale nuclear fission power systems potentially leads to an energy source capable of meeting all large-scale stationary demands for high-temperature heat. If widely employed to support such demands, it could, for example, directly reduce present-day worldwide CO2 emissions by two-fold; by using it to produce non-carbonaceous fuels for small mobile demands, a second two-fold reduction could be attained. Even the first such reduction would permit continued slow power-demand growth in the First World and rapid development of the Third World, both without any governmental suppression of fossil fuel usage.

 

http://www.osti.gov/bridge/servlets/purl/6...able/614877.pdf

 

This is real, and it's happening now.

 

http://www.greentechmedia.com/articles/rea...r-startup-5627/

 

http://djysrv.blogspot.com/2008/09/microso...up-nuclear.html

 

http://www.intellectualventures.com/docs/t...ower_3_6_09.pdf

 

http://www.intellectualventures.com/default.aspx

 

I think these guys at IV are really worth keeping a close eye on.

 

 

 

 

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