Regarding Pebble Bed reactors American utilities don't want Pebble Bed reactors. These reactors have low power density. Utilities wsnt high power densities and a reactor that is as big are possible(buzzword: economies of scale). Also Pebble Bed reactors produce radioactive silver that make maintenances near impossible.
Per Peterson was designing a Pebble Bed reactor that uses lithium based molten salt (FLiBe) to keep the silver under control. This reactor type needs lots of R&D an NRC fees because it is not certified. Only light water reactors are allowed in the USA by the NRC. On Fri, Dec 4, 2015 at 12:14 PM, a.ashfield <[email protected]> wrote: > Ooops I used a semicolon instead of a colon. Sorry about that. My > eyesight is not good. > > Chris, > Have a look at Modular Moving Pebble Bed reactors. They are fail safe, > neither large not particularly expensive. > I read the Chinese were planning build units ~100 MW in factories and > transport them to the sites. Haven't been following them for a while > though. > > > >
