Plentiful energy
by Charles E. Till · first published 2011
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It's a 1MW reactor. That's a thousand times smaller than conventional nuclear reactors. It doesn't seem unlikely that it could be passively cooled. For the rest, a great source is the book Plentiful Energy, by the chief scientists of another small fast-reactor project at Argonne. For that reactor, the fuel is a mix of plutonium isotopes which can't be used for bombs and are much more difficult to purify…
on “Energy” ↗Here's one. A great read: https://www.amazon.com/Plentiful-Energy-technology-scientifi... It's available online also: https://www.thesciencecouncil.com/pdfs/PlentifulEnergy.pdf I read it 14 years ago or so, after the Fukushima accident. I don't think the science has…
…good book on all this was just put online for free, here: http://www.thesciencecouncil.com/prescription-for-the-planet... There's also a new book by two lead researchers from the Argonne project, called Plentiful Energy, by Till and Chang. That one goes into quite a bit more technical detail. Another good online source is here: http://bravenewclimate.com/integral-fast-reactor-ifr-nuclear...
on “New nuclear fuel source would power human race until 5000AD” ↗…burn up their plutonium stockpiles. In the IFR tests at Argonne, researchers cut off the cooling system entirely, and the reactor just quietly shut down, with no damage. A great new book on the IFR is Plentiful Energy by Till and Chang, two senior scientists at the Argonne project.
on “First new U.S. nuclear reactors in decades approved” ↗