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Coal Burning Power Plant
Retrofitting a few existing coal
burning power plant boilers with nuclear boilers will end 30% of all Global
Warming.
The electricity turbine is disconnected from the
coal burning boiler (faded) then reconnected to the nuclear boiler.
The Nuclear Boiler Module is a disposable, mass-produced, automatic nuclear reactor heated steam boiler intended to be used in large numbers for Global Warming CO2 mitigation. To reduce all of Global Warming by 30%, these nuclear boiler modules will have to be installed in the world's largest coal burning power plants which are located in at least 67 different countries, many of which may never be "nuclear-ready."
Fast-Neutron reactors, considered by many to be a substantial improvement in safety and efficiency over currently used slow-neutron nuclear reactors - if the core gets hotter than its design temperature, it looses its ability to make more even more heat. In the author's opinion, slow reactors are also "safe enough". Fast reactors get at least 15 times the "uranium mileage," while producing about 1/20 the nuclear waste, which decays to non-radioactive after about 200 years. Since the oceans are 4 ppm uranium and the Japanese have a way of extracting it at several times today's street price, we will never run out. Uranium from Seawater .pdf Fast Reactors Fast Reactors .mht
Nuclear boiler modules would be mass-produced
on concrete barges in the world's eight nuclear-ship capable shipyards, floated
to locations next to the turbine building of any of the world's largest power
plants located on navigable water (about 54% are), set on pilings (elevation adjusted for
anticipated sea level changes), have
a 3 foot thick reinforced concrete containment enclosure poured around it, the
containment's sides covered with dirt,
At the end of its service life, the reactor module's containment cover dirt would be removed, the concrete containment container broken away, the access slip to the nearby navigable water re-opened, the barge re-floated off its piling sockets, and the reactor-barge towed to a remote disposal facility.
Nuclear Energy Facts Report - April 2010.pdf Why You Can't Build a Bomb From Spent Fuel-2 .pdf Would 10,000 Nuclear Power Plants Cook the Planet?. pdf
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James P. Holm, P.E.,
(Retired)
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