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Walkaway Safe | Thorcon Power

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History of Liquid Fuel Reactors. ThorCon is Walkaway Safe. ThorCon is a simple molten salt reactor. Unlike all current reactors, the fuel is in liquid form dissolved in a fluoride salt. In the event of any event that raises the temperature of this fuelsalt much above operating level, ThorCon will automatically shut itself down, drain the fuel from the primary loop, and passively handle the decay heat. ThorCon is Release Resistant. No Separate Spent-Fuel Storage. Multiple Decay Heat Cooling Paths. ThorCon...

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Presentations | Thorcon Power

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History of Liquid Fuel Reactors. Dane Wilson’s Status Report at Oak Ridge National Laboratory, October 5, 2016. Powering Up Our World. Lars Jorgensen’s Presentation at TEAC7, June 3, 2015. Presentation emphasizing ThorCon vs Coal economics. Also describes recent updates to the design. An extremely short summary presentation aimed at attention span challenged decision makers. Chris Uhlik’s Presentation at Tridec in Kennewick, WA, Jan, 26, 2015. A ThorCon Prototype at Hanford. 3D models by nathan crum.

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Fuel Cost | Thorcon Power

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History of Liquid Fuel Reactors. 1 GW coal plant fuel and waste flows. 90% capacity factor ). Coal, Tons Per Year. Sulfur Tons Per Year. Ash Tons Per Year. CO2 Tons Per Year. Every 8 years the plant will end up sending about 160 tons of spent fuel back to the recycling facility. This material will be about 75% thorium, with 95% of the remainder valuable uranium. Even if we don’t attempt any separation, other than boiling off the salt, the total fuel waste stream averages about 2 m3 per year.

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Bottom Line | Thorcon Power

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History of Liquid Fuel Reactors. Levelized Cost ThorCon Versus Coal. This table summarizes the results of a more formal costing analysis. See the Executive Summary. For details. ThorCon treats the Cans, which must be recycled every four years, as a consumable, even though the Cans contain the primary loop, the heart of ThorCon. The cost of the Cans in turn include the costs of decontamination, recycling, and disposing of material that cannot be recycled. ThorCon is cheaper than coal.

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Simple | Thorcon Power

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History of Liquid Fuel Reactors. A solid fuel reactor requires thousands of highly engineered, highly stressed fuel pins. Some fast breeder designs require more than 50,000. Failure of a single fuel pin will shut the reactor down and force a difficult decontamination process. Move Fuel Around With a Pump. Now the reactor, heat exchangers and all sorts of plumbing are entombed in this mausoleum where they are extremely difficult to repair or replace. Therefore, we pretend that they will need essential...

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Dependable | Thorcon Power

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History of Liquid Fuel Reactors. ThorCon is by nature a load follower. Due to its negative temperature coefficient, the plant’s power output wants to adjust to the load. ThorCon easily meets the EU requirements for dispatchability. Each 1 GWe ThorCon is broken down into four 250 MWe modules which function independently of each other. Most failures, even major ones, will result in the loss of no more than one-fourth of the plant’s output. 3D models by nathan crum. Website by patrick doyle.

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NOW | Thorcon Power

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History of Liquid Fuel Reactors. ThorCon Prototype Test Schedule. Complete detailed design. Prepare Specs for Yard and Vendors. Execute selected experiments. Get quotes, select yard and vendors. Raise Phase 1 money. Build full-scale non-nuclear, single module prototype. Key sub-system tests. Modify, improve design. Full scale non-nuclear tests. Confirm thermo-hydraulics. Exercise instrumentation, safety, replacement systems. Approval of zero power tests. Raise Phase 2 money. When you consider what these ...

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Clean | Thorcon Power

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History of Liquid Fuel Reactors. Due to its higher efficiency, ThorCon produces about 55% of the waste heat of a LWR with the same power output, reducing cooling water requirements by a like amount. Net fissile consumption is half that of a standard LWR. ThorCon requires little land. A 1 GWe ThorCon will easily fit into a 10 hectare (25 acre) site. And with the nuclear island totally underground, Thorcon can be visually unobtrusive at least by power plant standards. 3D models by nathan crum.

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Overnight Cost | Thorcon Power

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History of Liquid Fuel Reactors. Steel and Concrete Required for 1 GW Plant. Moreover, almost all the ThorCon concrete is non-structural, simply dumped into the steel sandwich walls; while a large part of the coal plant concrete is slow, labor intensive, reinforced concrete. On a resource basis, everything else being equal, the overnight cost of the ThorCon nuclear island should be less than one-third that of the coal plant’s steam generation side. 3D models by nathan crum. Website by patrick doyle.

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Rapid Deployment | Thorcon Power

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History of Liquid Fuel Reactors. The Hyundai Shipyard at Ulsan. One of the knocks against nuclear is the plants cannot be deployed in time to make any real dent in coal nor CO2 emissions. For ThorCon, this is not the case. The combination of lower resource requirements and shipyard productivity means that ThorCons can be deployed more. Rapidly than coal plants. It’s simply a matter of our deciding to take advantage of this capability. 3D models by nathan crum. Website by patrick doyle.