[HN Gopher] Nuclear Reactor Development History
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       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.
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       | 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.
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           | 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).
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           | [1] https://whatisnuclear.com/economics.html#improving-
           | modern-nu...
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           | 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.
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         | [0] https://whatisnuclear.com/waste.html
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         | [1] https://whatisnuclear.com/economics.html
        
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