maybe they need another 50 years to figure out how to get around that.
Nuclear Energy
- Thread starter Strangelove
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Onnes discovered solid mercury was a superconductor in like 1911. I assume those are niobium-tin superconductors. Discovered in 1954. They are not exactly new. It is a pain because you need high current density in a tokamak magnet. Most higher temperature superconductors, the ones which can be cooled with liquid nitrogen, are useless for that.
I think YBCO tape is the current state of the art for high current density at 20K or something.
I think YBCO tape is the current state of the art for high current density at 20K or something.
broadsword
Brigadier
A 100 MW commercial reactor by 2035 is painfully slow. I wish it could be 1000 MW instead.
broadsword
Brigadier
what are you talking about? am I in charge of the project?
Go read this section
broadsword
Brigadier
You could have replied with the above in your original post without further ado.
Thorium reactor advocates are aware of the MSRE (Molten Salt Reactor Experiment) the Americans achieved back in the 1960's.
While there were some major advancements made:
one - it used molten salt as a coolant
two - it successfully fission U233
three - but it Did Not convert thorium-232 to uranium-233 within the reactor core itself.
The Chinese are the first to achieve: one - two - three == all of the above.
I'm not an engineer but I'm assuming point "three" was the most difficult technical issue that had to be solved.
While there were some major advancements made:
one - it used molten salt as a coolant
two - it successfully fission U233
three - but it Did Not convert thorium-232 to uranium-233 within the reactor core itself.
The Chinese are the first to achieve: one - two - three == all of the above.
I'm not an engineer but I'm assuming point "three" was the most difficult technical issue that had to be solved.
CGN is going fully domestic with their next generation digital instrumentation & control system for NPPs.