RE: Shutting down fossil fuel electric plants
October 21, 2018 at 10:49 am
(This post was last modified: October 21, 2018 at 10:53 am by Anomalocaris.)
(October 21, 2018 at 10:46 am)Fake Messiah Wrote: Panicking about climate? The solution is abundant, scalable, zero-carbon energy, including 4th-gen nuclear. Promising development: Terrestrial Energy’s Integrated Molten Salt Reactor clears a regulatory hurdle in Canada.
https://www.terrestrialenergy.com/2018/1...in-canada/
Quote:Terrestrial Energy is a developer of Generation IV advanced nuclear power plants that use its proprietary Integral Molten Salt Reactor (IMSR®) technology.
IMSR® power plants will provide zero-carbon, reliable, dispatchable, cost-competitive electric power and high grade industrial heat for use in many industrial applications, such as chemical synthesis and desalination, and in so doing extend the application of nuclear energy far beyond electric power markets. They have the potential to make important contributions to industrial competitiveness, energy security, and economic growth. Their deployment will support rapid global decarbonization of the primary energy system by displacing fossil fuel combustion across a broad spectrum. Using an innovative design, and proven and demonstrated molten salt reactor technology, Terrestrial Energy is engaged with regulators and industrial partners to complete IMSR® engineering and to commission first IMSR® power plants in the late 2020s.
Nuclear technology faces a PR problem that technical facts have proven in principle to be inadaquate to overcome. Until that is realized presenting promising technical facts is barking up the wrong tree.