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No LK99 So Nuclear Power?
- tuatoru 3y agoNuclear will be fine if the economics work. So far there appears little chance of that. Also, this is misleading:- > Did you know you can use the heat produced in Nuclear power reactors directly for things like turning Iron Ore to steel. No natural gas or conversion to Electricity required: https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/abs/10.1098/rspa.1974.0144 https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/abs/10.1098/rspa.1974... . The abstract of the reference given says "With nuclear heat, the fossil fuel--re-formed to a suitable reductant--is confined to the chemical role and not used as a source of heat." So, still using coal. In contrast to more modern methods that avoid coal altogether, by using hydrogen as the reducer, or by direct electrolysis of molten ore.