Level Up your coal plant by giving it a nuclear reactor!

Level Up your coal plant by giving it a nuclear reactor!

The United States, Poland, the Czech Republic and Slovakia are all pursuing new nuclear reactors. They also have a lot of old coal plants, that have plenty of service life left in them. According to TerraPraxis, many of these can be retrofitted with Nuclear Reactors, giving the plants and the communities that rely on them a new lease in life.

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[EricMeyer]

High temp high grade heat is a massively underrated benefit of MSR.

[benl]

FYI, the cost of paperwork/approval (ONLY) for a nuke plan is MORE than the total cost of construction a coal plan... I'm pro-nuke, but the savings from old coal infrastructures are a rounding error.

[AdamGenasys]

The MSR can use both nuclear waste in coal ash and from Light Water Reactors as fuel. No new U mining is needed.

[bergonius]

That's a good idea. I've came up with the same independently.

[simonloncaric]

Westinghouse could also be incorporated because of their LFR. Just a guess.

[AdamGenasys]

The MSR is a Breeder Reactor that can breed thorium 232 into fissile U233. The thorium and U in Coal ash has 18 times the energy when used as fuel in a MSR as was produced by the coal that produced it.

[larrymendoza]

Terrific, compelling video! Thanks...

[skycladsquirrel]

100 percent! If they can keep their jobs, they would be on board for sure.

[daniellarson]

The nuclear power industry in the US is possibly the most regulated industry in the land. This is not altogether bad, as the health and safety of the public then become of paramount importance to the industry. However, are regulations set up to allow this massive conversion of coal burning sites to become nuclear generation sites?

[stickynorth]

Absolutely. Alberta is shutting off its last coal plants this winter or spring but we will be depending entirely on natural gas for baseload power, not that great a solution. The next solution? Replace those units with SMR's...

[Superwip]

It's a good idea.

The vast majority of coal workers don't work at coal power plants, they work either in the mines or in the coal transport logistic. These jobs are not needed, wether or not the coal plant is replaced by an other power plant, be it a nuclear plant, be it a gas plant, on the same location.

Maybe those jobs can be replaced by locating energy intensive manufacturing industries near this power plants. But that requires more than just replacing the power (or heat) source. But the current "re-shoring" trend could help.

[acbanalytics]

What part of this production was done by the Minions? I notice they are uncredited.

[fcfootballfan]

Thanks for the great presentation. How to inform and convince our by green peace influenced alpha politicians that nuclear is the way to go?

[MrChainsawAardvark]

I certainly believe in the promise of nuclear power, and that coal needs to go away. However - this really doesn't seem like it can work all that well. Britain tried to reuse the non-nuclear architecture of its coal plants (turbines etc) chained to a nuclear source in the 50s and 60s - and the designs underperformed. A coal plant gets up to 1000 degrees, maybe 1400 with advanced fluidized bed designs whereas nuclear needs emergency cooling to keep them under 3000. In the scheme of things, the turbines are not nearly as expensive as important aspects like the containment building or the massive steel pressure vessels of the actual reactor.

If we want to reuse existing architecture - wouldn't it be ideal to copy naval reactors? They've used what are basically SMRs since the mid 1950s, and already have training, fabrication, and recycling centers. Build a submarine without weapons and you essentially have a floating nuclear station you can park anywhere.

[acmefixer]

New nuclear power plants have multi-billion dollar cost overruns and decade long construction delays, so utilities won't contract for their construction.