Harry Veeder wrote:
> I thought they wanted a conventional power reactor, which, as I said,
> makes sense even though they have lots of natural gas. A 50 MW unit
> has nothing to do with energy generation, as Terry points out.
Well you have to begin somewhere. For example, Canada's first
reactor for power production was the 20 MW Nuclear Power Demonstration (NPD)
Reactor. It operated from 1962 to 1987.
If they want to contribute to nuclear power research I suppose they
might want a 50 MW unit. I doubt they have much to contribute to that
field. If they want energy they should buy a full-scale commercial
model from the U.S., Japan, France or . . . Russia? Do the Russians
sell these things?
I suppose the US is embargoing them.
As you see, I have not been following the story. The US is supposedly
building a power reactor in North Korea, which is shown periodically
on the Japanese NHK news. I have been paying attention to that
project. It looks to me like they are building it in slow motion, and
taking so long as it will fall down before it is finished. They are
using wheelbarrows to pour concrete, one load at a time.
- Jed
