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ThorCon - "Dawn Of The Second Nuclear Age"
Plant.
ThorConIsle™
500 megaWatt(e) nuclear barges.
The radioactivity goes away with the exchangeable nuclear reactor cans.
How ThorConIsle nuclear barge power plants could repower a coastal megapolis like Tampa, Florida.
ThorConIsle - Design
Paper.pdf
(Pairs of reactors powering a single 500 megaWatt(e) electricity
generator.)
http://thorconpower.com/
http://thorconpower.com/thorcons-green-nuclear-power-gains-momentum
http://euanmearns.com/thorcon-molten-salt-fission-power-plant/
(Detailed description)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3HP98Y61wnw&feature=youtu.be
ThorConIsle Barge Lengthwise Section View Showing 1 of 2 Nuclear Reactors (Blue) Driving a Single Electricity Generator.
3/4 of the world's mega-cities - the world's largest
electricity markets - are coastal, making it very difficult to get the main
electrical feeders into the centers of the cities.
Having spare same-power barges on hand make it very easy, quick, and cheap to
get a broken nuclear power plant back on-line.
Nuclear Electricity Barges can be mass-produced just like other mass-produced
ships - Cruse Ships, Oil Tankers, Banana Boats, Fishing Vessels, Container
Ships, etc.
ThorConIsle™ 500 megaWatt(e) nuclear barges
will usually come in pairs.
The radioactivity goes away with the exchangeable nuclear reactor cans.
How ThorConIsle nuclear barge power plants could repower a coastal megapolis like Tampa, Florida.
ThorConIsle - Design
Paper.pdf
The Reactor End Is The End Away From Land.
A 5-Exchangable Reactor Fuel Ship Removing A Spent Reactor "Can" or Delivering A Fresh "Can".
Molten Salt Reactors are most likely to be the leading next generation of nuclear technology. Their thorium fuel and modular mass-producible economics are well-suited to replace both the existing coal and the current generation of marginally safe solid fuel Water Cooled Reactors.
Their energy density has been mentioned as being 20 to 50 times greater than solid fuel water cooled submarine reactors, the current record holder for modern nuclear reactors.
The 550°F operating temperature of conventional solid fuel-rod water cooled reactors means they have no chance of replacing the heat of fossil fuels beyond boiling water to power low-efficiency steam turbines. Molten salt (1,300°F salt) and pebble bed (1,800°F helium) reactors can equal or exceed the performance of coal (1,100°F steam).
ThorCon sites are two unit sites. Two unit nuclear sites produce better economics and reliability.
Other companies developing canister type molten salt reactors include Terrestrial Power's IMSR and several in both Europe and Asia.
Moir - Teller Association.pdf MSR - Thorium-Fueled Underground Power Plant Based On Molten Salt Technology - moir_teller.pdf
Jim,
Thanks for featuring ThorCon on your web site.
The design keeps progressing and our own web site is hopelessly out of date.
Attached is a presentation which we gave to the Korean yards in November.
It too is already out of date. But feel free to use.
ThorCon Update -
Dec 2018 - do_djw1.pdf
I can send you the individual pdf's if you'd like.
You will probably be interested in the heat balance.
Despite the relatively pedestrian steam conditions, the over all net efficiency
is 46 to 47% depending on sea water temp, equivalent of a top of the line USC
plant.
The reason is less parasitic load in steam generation and we don't throw 10% of
the HHV up the stack.
By the way towing draft is not an issue.
The minimum even keel draft is about 6.5 m.
We will do most of the tow with a draft forward of 10 m and aft of 12 m. No
problem for the Canals or the building docks.
Merry Christmas,
Jack Devanney
Another molten salt reactor company, Terrestrial Energy of Canada, posted some very easy to understand schematic layouts illustrating what is possible with a a modern exchangeable reactor power plant.
Their motto: "If it isn't cheaper than coal, forget it".
https://neutronbytes.com/2017/12/06/thorcons-nuclear-msr-design-gains-momentum/
- Dan Yurman
"ThorCon employs a moderately high energy density resulting in a
short (4 year) moderator life. A ThorCon plant is made up of one or more 250
MWe modules. Each module consists of two sealed Cans. Each Can houses a 250 MWe
primary loop including a Pot (reactor), pump, and primary heat exchanger (PHX).
The two Cans are duplexed. At any time, one Can is operating and the other is in
cool-down or stand-by mode. The plant is designed so that the change out of a
cooled-down Can is safe and quick."
ThorCon exec_summary.pdf (Written
by a person experienced in building supertankers. Please try to find the time to
read the Abstract. The entire summary will give you some idea of how backwards
today's nuclear reactors are and how the ThorCon was designed to be relatively
inexpensively mass-produced, not unlike an airplane or ship.)
ThorCon Slide Presentation to Oak Ridge National Laboratories.pdf
ThorCon Estimated Heat Balance - From ThorCon web site library. - Blue English conversion notes by site author.
Underground ThorCon 250
megaWatt (e) Nuclear Steam Generator Module
ThorCon Silo Dimensions - From ThorCon web site library. - Blue English
conversion notes by site author.
(Above) Major components of a ThorCon molten salt reactor.
How Thorium Works
It looks like the Chinese are going to clean up their coal plants first.
Using two small pebble beds. Perhaps 40 reactors driving 20 steam turbine electricity generators.
coal2nuclear conversion
Cleaning up an existing coal plant. Second and third world way to save money.
Safety
The experience of the MSRE is indeed applicable to building the safety case. The improved ThorCon design, based on the MSDR, has multiple barriers to radioactive material dispersion and multiple systems for decay heat removal. This permits testing without fear that a single mistake will lead to a radioactive release. We plan to argue that the EPZ is the plant site boundary. The 250 MWe scale of the power module makes such testing feasible. The design uses commercial materials known to be compatible with the molten salt environment. We plan on testing the prototype, first with no fissile materials, using electric heating to bring pressures and temperatures to operational levels. The regulator will be invited to participate to became familiar with the technology and ThorCon.
The finished prototype will be tested in Indonesia in a step-by-step commissioning process, with each step requiring approval of the test approval committee of international experts appointed by the regulator. The 250 MWe scale of the power module makes such testing feasible. After two years we expect to obtain a type license for future commercial power plants.
Today’s giant LWRs are licensed without testing.
HTR-PM pdf. A Chinese 200 mW(t) pebble bed reactor with some real potential to convert some small coal power plant units to nuclear.
Nuclear Waste: The Sub-Seabed
Solution
The radioactivity goes away with the nuclear barge.
The entire
world of nuclear energy has bungled the issue of nuclear waste. Here is a
better idea:
http://www.theatlantic.com/past/docs/issues/96oct/seabed/seabed.htm
CNNC to construct Chinese prototype floating nuclear plant, other nuclear barge items
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This facility is clearly defined by the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission, local and national building and electrical codes, and supplemented by constraints from the relevant equipment manufacturers.
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From: http://thorconpower.com/library
2.305.01.00 ---------- DOCUMENTS --------------------
2.305.01.01 ----- ThorCon, the Do-able Molten Salt Reactor
2.305.01.02 ----- Clean and Doable Liquid Fission (LF) Energy Roadmap for
Powering our World
2.305.01.03 ----- Who will be ThorCon's EPC (Engineering, procurement, and
construction (EPC) contractor) Contractor
https://atomicinsights.com/will-thorcons-epc-contractor/ [This is
where the rubber hits the road.]
2.305.01.04 ----- Executive Summary [81 page detailed descriptions and sketches
of the ThorCon reactor.]
2.305.01.05 ----- Using ThorCon to Downgrade Weapons Grade Plutonium
2.305.01.06 ----- A Tale of Two Ships
2.305.01.07 ----- The Nuclear Waste Problem
2.305.01.08 ----- A Modest Proposal
2.305.01.09 ----- The Sigmoid No Threshold Radiation Dose Response Model
2.305.01.10 ----- Liquid Fluoride Thorium Reactors
2.305.01.11 ----- ThorCon's Uranium Consumption
2.305.01.12 ----- IAEA ARIS ThorCon description
2.305.01.13 ----- Promex Manual
2.305.02.00 ---------- PRESENTATIONS --------------------
2.305.02.01 ----- Solving both the Energy Poverty and Climate Problems, August
21, 2017
2.305.02.02 ----- Dane Wilson's Status Report at Oak Ridge National Laboratory,
October 5, 2016
2.305.02.03 ----- Lars Jorgensen's Presentation at TEAC7, June 3, 2016
2.305.02.04 ----- Six Slide Summary
2.305.02.05 ----- Chris Uhlik's Presentation at Tridec in Kennewick, WA, Jan 26,
2015
2.305.02.06 ----- 3rd International Workshop on accelerator-driven sub-critical
systems and thorium utilization, Oct 15, 2014
2.305.02.07 ----- Thorium Energy Alliance Conference, May 29, 2014
2.305.03.00 ---------- HISTORY --------------------
2.305.03.01 ----- History of Liquid Fuel Reactors
2.305.03.02 ----- MSRE (Molten Salt Reactor Experiment)
2.305.03.03 ----- Hanford
2.305.03.04 ----- Nautilus (First nuclear submarine)
2.305.03.05 ----- Camp Century
2.305.04.00 ---------- ANSWERS --------------------
2.305.04.01 ----- Spec Sheet
2.305.04.02 ----- Safety Sheet
2.305.04.03 ----- Frequently Asked Questions
From StoppingClimateChange Database Collection:
2.302 ----- Can nuclear and renewables coexist - Can Reactors
React -pdf
2.303 ----- Is nuclear energy flexible
2.304 ----- Nuclear Power and Sustainable Development - Pub1754web-26894285
2.305 ----- Uranium Seawater Extraction Makes Nuclear Power Completely Renewable
2.306 ----- 10.106 ----- Molten Salt Reactor - IAEA to Establish New Platform
For Collaboration
2.306.1 ----- Solar Power's greatest challenge was discovered 10 years ago. It
looks like a duck
2.307 ----- 11.602 ----- Thorium-Fuelled Molten Salt Reactors - Weinburg
Foundation Report - 20132.308 ----- 11.605 ----- Objections To Molten Salt Thorium
Reactors
2.309 ----- 11.626 ----- Molten Salt Reactor Feasibility Study
2.310 ----- 11.700 ---------- MOLTEN SALT HEAT TRANSFER
TECHNOLOGY ---------------------
2.311 ----- 11.702----- Solar Collector Molten Salt Paper
2.312 ----- 11.704 ----- Molten Salts For High Temperature
Reactors
2.313 ----- 11.706 -- KEY --- Assessment of Candidate Molten
Salt Coolants
2.314 ----- 11.710 ----- Assessment Of A Molten Salt In A
Parabolic Trough Solar Field
2.315 ----- 11.714 ----- Why The Molten Salt Reactor Was Never
Developed - Bruce Hoglund
2.316 ----- 11.715 ----- Molten Salt Heat Transfer Testing Loop
- FLiBe, Pumps, Heat Exchangers, etc
2.317 ----- 11.716 ----- Molten Salt Reactor Adventure - H G
MacPherson
2.318 ----- 11.718 ----- Assessment Of A Molten Salt Heat
Transfer Fluid
2.319 ----- 11.720 ----- Process Heat Transfer With Molten Salts
2.320 ----- 11.722 ----- What Is Molten Salt Heat Transfer -
Bruce Hoglund
2.321 ----- 12.200 ---------- MOLTEN SALT REACTORS
--------------------------------------------
2.322 ----- 12.202 ----- Molten Salt Reactors - Safety Options
Galore
2.324 ----- 12.203 ----- Key Paper - Molten Salt Reactors -
History, Status, and Potential
2.325 ----- 12.204 ----- The Multi-Mission Molten Salt Reactor
2.326 ----- 12.206 ----- Molten Salt Reactor Benchmark Problem
to Constrain Plutonium
2.327 ----- 12.207 ----- Molten Salt Coolants for High
Temperature Reactors
2.328 ----- 12.208 ----- High Temperature Molten Salt Coolants
2.329 ----- 12.209 ----- Thermal and Fast Spectrum Molten Salt
Reactors
2.330 ----- 12.213 ----- Molten Salt Fuels for Nuclear Waste
Transmutation
2.331 ----- 12.214 ----- Safety and Licensing Aspects of the
Molten Salt Reactor
2.332 ----- 12.217 ----- Alternatives for the Removal and
Disposition of Molten Salt Reactor Salts
2.333 ----- 12.227 ----- KEY PAPER ---- Molten Salt Reactor
Concepts With Reduced Potential for Proliferation - EBASCO - IEA-77-13
2.334 ----- 12.229 ----- The Multiregion Molten Salt Reactor
Concept
2.335 ----- 12.232 ---------- The Molten Salt Reactor Adventure
- H.G. MacPherson
2.336 ----- 12.234 ----- Appendix 6 0 Molten Salt Reactor
2.337 ----- 12.237 ----- The Molten Salt Hybrid
2.338 ----- 12.241 ----- The Multi-Mission Molten Salt Reactor (MSR)
2.339 ----- 12.242 ----- Vallecitos Molten Salt Research -
Recommendations for a restart of MSR development
2.340 ----- 12.244 ----- Moir - Teller - Thorium-Fueled
Underground Power Plant Based On Molten Salt Technology
2.341 ----- 12.246 ----- Cost of electricity from Molten Salt
Reactors - Moir - MSR
2.342 ----- 12.248 ----- 1000 mWe - Capital Cost Evaluation 1000
mWe Molten Salt Converter Reactor Power Plants
2.343 ----- 12.258 ----- MOLTEN SALT REACTORS SAFETY OPTIONS
GALORE
2.344 ----- 12.260 ----- Reactors with Molten Salts - Options
and Missions - CWForsberg
2.345 ----- 12.261 ----- MOLTEN SALTS for HIGH TEMPERATURE
REACTORS
2.346 ----- 12.262 ---------- HIGH TEMPERATURE MOLTEN SALT PUMPS
2.347 ----- 12.263 ----- Molten Salt Reactors - 1958 Outlook
2.348 ----- 12.264 ----- Studies on Components for a Molten Salt
Reactor
2.349 ----- 12.267 ----- DMSR - Denatured Molten Salt Reactors
2.350 ----- 12.272 ----- KEY DESIGN PAPER - Deep-Burn Molten
Salt Reactors - Moir
2.351 ----- 12.273 ----- Cost of electricity from Molten Salt
Reactors MSR - Moir
2.352 ----- 12.274 ----- Recommendations for a restart of molten
salt reactor development - Moir
2.353 ----- 12.276 ----- Suggested research topics for molten
salt reactors - Moir
2.354 ----- 12.282 ----- TRANSIENT RESPONSE of Small Molten Salt
Reactor at Duct Blockage Accident
2.355 ----- 12.295 ----- Molten salt reactors - A new beginning
for an old idea
2.356 ----- 12.900 ---------- 1,300F MOLTEN SALT REACTORS -
GENERAL - Cooled Slow Neutron, Uranium and or Thorium Powered, Nuclear Reactor
2.357 ----- 12.901 ----- Molten Salt Reactors - Safety Options
Galore
2.358 ----- 12.903 ----- Dr Charles Forsberg --- Combined Cycle
Molten Salt Power Plant Video
2.359 ----- 12.910 ----- MOLTEN SALT REACTORS, LFTRS - -
2.360 ----- 12.912 -- KEY --- Feasibility Study of a Pilot Scale
Molten Salt Reactor Demonstration
2.361 ----- 12.914 ---------- MOLTEN SALT REACTORS - PART II
2.362 ----- 12.916 ----- 2012 Masters Thesis for Convection
Cooled Molten Salt Reactor
2.363 ----- 12.918 ----- Molten Salt Reactors - IAEA to
Establish New Platform for Collaboration
2.364 ----- 12.921 ----- MOLTEN SALT REACTOR UPDATE - May 2017 -
World Nuclear Association
2.365 ----- 12.927 ----- Development Status of Molten Salt
Reactors - 1972
2.366 ----- 12.928 ----- An Advanced Molten Salt Reactor Using
High-Temperature Reactor Technology
2.367 ----- 12.932 ----- A simple and SMAHTR way to build a
molten salt reactor from Canada - Mark Halper David LeBlanc
2.368 ----- 12.935 ----- Molten Salt Reactors - April 2016 World
Nuclear Association Update
2.369 ----- 12.954 ----- Molten Salt Reactors - A new beginning
for an old idea - David LeBlanc
2.370 ----- 12.956 ----- Simple Molten Salt Reactors
2.371 ----- 12.962 ----- Experience With The Molten Salt Reactor
Experiment
2.372 ----- 12.963 ----- Molten Salt Converter Reactors - From
DMSR to SmAHTR - David LeBlanc Slide Show Talk At Mumbai Jan 2013
2.373 ----- 12.972 ---------- MOLTEN SALT REACTOR HISTORY
----------
2.374 ----- 13.000 ----- Items Common To All Specific Molten
Salt Reactors - SEE ALSO 54.400 -------
2.375 ----- 13.000 --------------- MOLTEN SALT REACTORS ----- 20
or 40 Folders Per Reactor ----------
2.376 ----- 13.005 ----- ORNL Molten Salt Report
2.377 ----- 13.007 ----- MOLTEN SALT REACTOR Folders --- 7.500
to 7.999 500 Folders
2.378 ----- 13.008 ----- MSR Review - Feasibility of Developing
a Pilot Scale Molten Salt Reactor in the UK
2.380 ----- 13.010 ----- Growing interest in molten salt
reactors - General review February 29 2016
2.381 ----- 13.012 -- KEY --- Molten Salt Reactor General Report
- World Nuclear Association - Sept 8 2016
2.382 ----- 13.015 ----- A great technical achievement, Molten
Salt Reactor could be entombed
2.383 ----- 13.044 ----- Molten Salt Reactors, Nuclear Energy,
and Thorium
2.384 ----- 13.045 ----- Molten Salt Nuclear Reactors -
America's Future
2.385 ----- 13.046 ----- Molten Salt Reactors - Technology
revolution in nuclear power could slash costs below coal
2.386 ----- 13.050 ----- TRANSATOMIC molten salt reactor - File
Collection
2.387 ----- 13.101 -- KEY --- An Overview of the Integral Molten
Salt Reactor
2.388 ----- 13.102 ----- TERRESTRIAL ENERGY molten salt reactor
- File Collection (Empty)
2.389 ----- 13.104 ---------- MOLTEN SALT REACTOR - Terrestrial
Energy - David LeBlanc (Empty)
2.390 ----- 13.105 ----- Old Dog Learning New Tricks - Integral
Molten Salt Reactors and How They Can Change Nuclear Power
2.391 ----- 13.118 ----- MOLTEN SALT COOLED - Advanced High
Temperature Reactor
2.392 ----- 13.201 ----- 7 ----- THORCON Molten Salt Reactor
----- 100 ---
2.393 ----- 13.202 ----- THORCON molten salt reactor - File
collection
2.394 ----- 13.204 ----- 1000 mWe - Molten Salt Converter
Reactor - EBASCO for ORNL
2.395 ----- 13.210 ----- ThorCon - Demonstrated Molten Salt Tech
Packaged With Modern Construction Techniques
2.396 ----- 13.281 ----- Elysium 1 gW(e) Molten Salt Reactor
2.397 ----- 13.335 ----- Current Status Of The Advanced High
Temperature Reactor - A Molten Salt Reactor
2.398 ----- 54.400 ---------- Molten Salt Reactors --- 100
Folders ----------------------------------------------------
2.399 ----- 54.401 ----- 5 - Integral Molten Salt Reactor -
Terrestrial Energy
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