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1/ I propose a useful counter to the #GreenNewDeal I call it the #GreenNuclearDeal. I believe it will have 4 major phases and could potentially eliminate the use of fossil fuels for power production in the United States.
2/ Let me give my expertise. I spent 20 years operating nuclear power plants for the United States Navy and after my retirement I continued to work in the commercial sector as an operator for at a 3 loop Westinghouse plant.
3/ Phase 1: Deregulate a lot of the industry. Without giving details I can tell you that access to military installations is easier and has less firepower than commercial power plants. The government requires more security for commercial power plant than they for the Navy plants.
4/ another example of over regulation is The commercial Nuclear is terrified to overflow pure water tanks because they would have to report spilling purified water to the EPA and NRC.
5/ With regulations removed the next pet of Phase 1 would be for the government to intervene and fund recommending construction on VC Summer units 2 and 3. And then to push for the companies with existing licenses to build other new generation 3 PWR and BWRs.
Phase 1 is really about replacing the aging commercial nuclear fleet to support the baseload energy source. California spent $100 Billion on “green energy” that can sustain the state for a whopping 23 minutes. For the same price they could have build between 6-10 new plants.
7/ Phase 2- have the national laboratories that design the Navy’s nuclear power plants create a smaller variable power plant to use during peak hours. Large scale nuclear plants operate at 100% of rated power and don’t function well at varying power level.
8/ The Navy Nuclear power plants are designed to varying power levels. The ships do not operate at top speed all the time and must fluctuate between low and high powers constantly based on the mission.
9/ Smaller scale (1000 MWth or less) could be used to supplement the firs during peak time periods and the plants could go idle or shutdown during low power demand periods.
10/ Phase 3- Place focus on developing generation IV fission power plants. These new designs have unlimited passive safety systems. Meaning that if an incident occurred an all operators suddenly died the plant would go to safe idle or shutdown mode indefinitely.
11/ This is obviously preferred to the current generation 2 and 3 reactors in service that require specific operator action. Even the new generation 3+ AP1000 plants require operation action after 72 hours. Presently after Fukushima a program called BDB Flex was implemented.
12/ It requires diesel driven equipment on site in hardened facilities to combat a Beyond Design Basis incident (e.g. tsunami, hurricane, etc...). Overall the safety of currently operating plants is enhanced because of the procedure but the new gen 4 designs would eliminate this.
13/ Phase 4- #FUSION power plants. To get this technology will require a competitive effort similar to the Manhattan project in the 1940s. To ensure public safety we would need to conduct the large scale test plants in the middle of nowhere.
14/ This has been done in the past during the 50s and 60s when fission was being developed on a large scale. In fact the only nuclear accident in US history that involve fatalities occurred in the middle of nowhere in Idaho. SL-1 was a terrible accident.
15/ The people died but new design requirements were built into new plant design to preclude rod ejection. I would hope any fusion designs would not have any major accidents but we would need to them in middle of nowhere.
16/ Fortunately we have three major national nuclear sites in the middle of nowhere.
1. Idaho National Laboratory
2. Nevada National Security Site
3. Los Alamos National Laboratory
17/ We could pick 3 types of fusion core designs and give the sites $1 Billion each to start design and construction. The two labs that get their project furthest along in a 5 year time period would be awarded and additional $1 Billion for further development.
18/ As the projects progress we could continue to fund them until they produce two different viable large scale fusion plants.
19/ Why two? Think back to the Manhattan project. Two competing designs were being developed one using Uranium and the other Plutonium. The final product, though devastating, resulted in two unique products that were delivered.
20/ Hiroshima was struck by the bomb that utilized Uranium and Nagasaki was struck by the bomb that utilized plutonium. Both of these incidents were tragic but the human performance measures to get the final product are sound.
21/ @ScottAdamsSays @naval @Cernovich @realDonaldTrump @JackPosobiec
I hope you look into my #GreenNuclearDeal
2/ Let me give my expertise. I spent 20 years operating nuclear power plants for the United States Navy and after my retirement I continued to work in the commercial sector as an operator for at a 3 loop Westinghouse plant.
3/ Phase 1: Deregulate a lot of the industry. Without giving details I can tell you that access to military installations is easier and has less firepower than commercial power plants. The government requires more security for commercial power plant than they for the Navy plants.
4/ another example of over regulation is The commercial Nuclear is terrified to overflow pure water tanks because they would have to report spilling purified water to the EPA and NRC.
5/ With regulations removed the next pet of Phase 1 would be for the government to intervene and fund recommending construction on VC Summer units 2 and 3. And then to push for the companies with existing licenses to build other new generation 3 PWR and BWRs.
Phase 1 is really about replacing the aging commercial nuclear fleet to support the baseload energy source. California spent $100 Billion on “green energy” that can sustain the state for a whopping 23 minutes. For the same price they could have build between 6-10 new plants.
7/ Phase 2- have the national laboratories that design the Navy’s nuclear power plants create a smaller variable power plant to use during peak hours. Large scale nuclear plants operate at 100% of rated power and don’t function well at varying power level.
8/ The Navy Nuclear power plants are designed to varying power levels. The ships do not operate at top speed all the time and must fluctuate between low and high powers constantly based on the mission.
9/ Smaller scale (1000 MWth or less) could be used to supplement the firs during peak time periods and the plants could go idle or shutdown during low power demand periods.
10/ Phase 3- Place focus on developing generation IV fission power plants. These new designs have unlimited passive safety systems. Meaning that if an incident occurred an all operators suddenly died the plant would go to safe idle or shutdown mode indefinitely.
11/ This is obviously preferred to the current generation 2 and 3 reactors in service that require specific operator action. Even the new generation 3+ AP1000 plants require operation action after 72 hours. Presently after Fukushima a program called BDB Flex was implemented.
12/ It requires diesel driven equipment on site in hardened facilities to combat a Beyond Design Basis incident (e.g. tsunami, hurricane, etc...). Overall the safety of currently operating plants is enhanced because of the procedure but the new gen 4 designs would eliminate this.
13/ Phase 4- #FUSION power plants. To get this technology will require a competitive effort similar to the Manhattan project in the 1940s. To ensure public safety we would need to conduct the large scale test plants in the middle of nowhere.
14/ This has been done in the past during the 50s and 60s when fission was being developed on a large scale. In fact the only nuclear accident in US history that involve fatalities occurred in the middle of nowhere in Idaho. SL-1 was a terrible accident.
15/ The people died but new design requirements were built into new plant design to preclude rod ejection. I would hope any fusion designs would not have any major accidents but we would need to them in middle of nowhere.
16/ Fortunately we have three major national nuclear sites in the middle of nowhere.
1. Idaho National Laboratory
2. Nevada National Security Site
3. Los Alamos National Laboratory
17/ We could pick 3 types of fusion core designs and give the sites $1 Billion each to start design and construction. The two labs that get their project furthest along in a 5 year time period would be awarded and additional $1 Billion for further development.
18/ As the projects progress we could continue to fund them until they produce two different viable large scale fusion plants.
19/ Why two? Think back to the Manhattan project. Two competing designs were being developed one using Uranium and the other Plutonium. The final product, though devastating, resulted in two unique products that were delivered.
20/ Hiroshima was struck by the bomb that utilized Uranium and Nagasaki was struck by the bomb that utilized plutonium. Both of these incidents were tragic but the human performance measures to get the final product are sound.
21/ @ScottAdamsSays @naval @Cernovich @realDonaldTrump @JackPosobiec
I hope you look into my #GreenNuclearDeal
