Of the proposals for which nuclear plants would supply peak power, the question is still out there: how will they balance the load? There are the various forms

Of the proposals for which nuclear plants would supply peak power, the question is still out there: how will they balance the load? There are the various forms of CAES. http://topics.energycentral.com/centers/gentech/view/detail.cfm?aid=1404 http://topics.energycentral.com/centers/gentech/view/detail.... There are also resistive shunts that can be used in conjunction with an entire national 100%-nuclear fleet running at full throttle full-time. The resistive shunts would be used to simply dump any excess power. We use resistive shunts for this, today (which is how we get rid of wind and solar power that grid utilities are required to "buy" from the public), but in the proposed scenario, they would be used even more. To encourage demand during times of excess supply, a real-time free-market could help. I envision that demand fluctuations would be smaller in the future, because of larger overall demand dwarfing weather/seasonal/earthspin-related (paganistic) heating and cooling fluctuations, and because of a global move toward a continuous day (after all, many of us are up in the "middle of the night", here, making our "day" when we feel like it). Nuclear powerplants can also make natural-gas, hydrogen, diesel, gasoline (http://www.google.com/search?q=%22nuclear+gasoline%22+graham+cowan http://www.google.com/search?q=%22nuclear+gasoline%22+graham...), octane, ethanol, methanol, deoxidized boron (http://www.eagle.ca/~gcowan/Paper_for_11th_CHC.html http://www.eagle.ca/~gcowan/Paper_for_11th_CHC.html), etc., that can, in turn, be used as fuels for load-following and peaking power.