[HN Gopher] Nuclear Reactor Development History ___________________________________________________________________ Nuclear Reactor Development History Author : simonebrunozzi Score : 54 points Date : 2020-08-24 19:56 UTC (3 hours ago) (HTM) web link (whatisnuclear.com) (TXT) w3m dump (whatisnuclear.com) | java-man wrote: | ORNL flew in and built a small reactor at the Geneva conference | in 1955. | | wow. | ggm wrote: | Please add information from the European and Asian experiences. | acidburnNSA wrote: | Author here. Just got an alert from server. I enjoyed writing | this in January and am happy to see it here. Happy to discuss | more or make corrections. | petrohi wrote: | This is great! Would be also interesting to have side-by-side | history of US, Russian and French nuclear power programs. | java-man wrote: | Thank you! Very interesting read and solid work. | | Any plans to publish a book? | acidburnNSA wrote: | You're welcome. It was a labor of love. | | After completing this, I thought geez I should just make this | a book. It's a relatively fringe subject, but hey maybe it'd | be a good use of a sabbatical or something. | | There is a lot of investor interest in advanced nuclear | reactors because of climate change, so it could be useful to | make this info more broadly available. | java-man wrote: | It's a pity we seem to be losing knowledge from time to | time. Like Antikythera mechanism, representing technology | that was developed and lost for 1,500 years. | | The little bits of information - that are currently | scattered across hundreds of impenetrable reports - might | still be interesting to a regular person, and who knows, | inspire someone to pick up the new research. | simonebrunozzi wrote: | OP here - thanks for writing it! Really enjoyed it!! Curious if | you wrote anything more specific about future of nuclear power, | and if you have any readings to recommend. | acidburnNSA wrote: | Thanks for posting it. It's always a dream to get on here. | | The follow-up piece to this one is the Economics page, and | this section in particular talks about what's likely | necessary to have a good future in nuclear [1] (it's a | collection of conclusions from expert groups on the topic, | mostly focused on economics). | | [1] https://whatisnuclear.com/economics.html#improving- | modern-nu... | | The MIT Future of Nuclear in a Carbon-Constrained World | report is excellent [2]. | | [2] https://energy.mit.edu/research/future-nuclear-energy- | carbon... | godelski wrote: | For anyone reading this I also suggest acidburn's article on | waste[0] and economics[1]. (I always recommend searching for | his comments in HN nuclear discussions) | | Also, always good to see you and congrats on a post of yours | getting to the front page. | | [0] https://whatisnuclear.com/waste.html | | [1] https://whatisnuclear.com/economics.html ___________________________________________________________________ (page generated 2020-08-24 23:01 UTC)