Work has begun on a major overhaul of a test reactor at the heart of the USA's nuclear energy research infrastructure. This will be the sixth time the Advanced Test Reactor at Idaho National Laboratory, which began operations in 1967, has undergone the process to enable it to continue its essential function for at least another decade.
Nuclear Reactor Testing Device Opens Doors to Safer Energy
New process to save communities millions of dollars, speed up development of world’s first Molten Salt Nuclear Battery Published online: May 17, 2021 Articles, Education And Arts, Lifestyle Alexiss Turner, University of Idaho
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Idaho Falls-based University of Idaho researchers have verified a new process to save communities millions of dollars and speed up development of the world’s first Molten Salt Nuclear Battery (MsNB), a nuclear energy reactor to generate heat and produce electricity.
Generating energy from nuclear fuel dissolved in molten salt is known for its improved safety and efficiency, as the process does not require a solid fuel like the uranium or plutonium used in most nuclear reactors today. Research is ongoing to bring this technology to market.
On April 22, 2021, the U.S. Department of Energy’s Idaho National Laboratory (INL)
announced it is soliciting Expressions of Interest (EOI) from industry stakeholders and technical experts on innovative uses of nuclear energy. The EOI should be for a multi-phase demonstration program in partnership with the National Reactor Innovation Center (
NRIC) and the Crosscutting Technology Development Integrated Energy Systems (
CTD IES) program in the U.S. Department of Energy’s Office of Nuclear Energy. This prospective effort demonstrates a public-private sector opportunity to advance carbon-free initiatives through nuclear innovation.
INL stated the potential demonstration program should begin in 2021 with a four-phased approach:
The controversial future of nuclear power in the U.S.
As the climate crisis worsens, the discussion intensifies over what role nuclear power should play in fighting it.
ByLois Parshley
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President Joe Biden has set ambitious goals for fighting climate change: To cut U.S. carbon emissions in half by 2030 and to have a net-zero carbon economy by 2050. The plan requires electricity generation the easiest economic sector to green, analysts say to be carbon-free by 2035.
Where is all that clean electricity going to come from?
A few figures from the U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA) illustrate the challenge. In 2020 the United States generated about four trillion kilowatt-hours of electricity. Some 60 percent of that came from burning fossil fuels, mostly natural gas, in some 10,000 generators, large and small, around the country. All of that electricity will need to be replaced and more, because demand for electricity is expected to rise, especially if we power more c
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