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Bernard L. Cohen wrote this book back in 1990. It's astonishingly still very applicable.
by ScotterC 16y ago
Bernard L. Cohen wrote this book back in 1990. It's astonishingly still very applicable.
- c1sc0 16y agoGoes to show that unlike political moods, the laws of physics don't change all that frequently. I wish more policy makers would make decisions based on facts rather than popular opinion. Maybe govt. needs some Google engineers?
- joubert 16y agoFrance is probably the ultimate model for how to work rationally in the nuclear energy space. Some interesting facts and history: http://www.world-nuclear.org/info/inf40.html http://www.world-nuclear.org/info/inf40.html and http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_power_in_France http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_power_in_France
- pjscott 16y agoChina is the one to watch right now. They're making massive investments in nuclear. Their CPR1000 reactor (based on 70's French reactors) is now cheaper to build than modern coal plants of the same size. They're working on doing the same cost-reduction for the more modern Westinghouse AP1000, and they're developing variants on the AP1000 which are the same size, don't cost much more, but produce 40% and 70% more power. They're working with Russia to build some BN-800 liquid metal fast breeder reactors, a successor to the BN-600 and earlier BN-series reactors that Russia has been operating successfully for decades. They're also importing some Russian VVER-1000 light water reactors, apparently for variety. They're building their first commercial pebble-bed modular reactors, and I believe they're working on how to incorporate thorium into the fuel mix. This isn't nearly as good as LFTRs, but it's nice to see. They're doing some other nuclear things, but those are the big ones.