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China has made significant strides in expanding its nuclear power capacity over the past decade, with an impressive addition of more than 34 GW. More: https://buff.ly/3UND9ub #NuclearPower

Fissile fuel is a finite resource and will increase reduction and cost as industry grows to a point of no fuel source. This has already been projected by the UN and was at time 250 years now with the projected growth of this to three times that it reduces to less than 80 yrs. Costs of fuel to reprocess and raw are already growing in the fissile fuel market and the 39 countries with fission reactors are now securing their supply and restricting sale to others. Best to divest and invest in Building and talking about Fusion power, space, and maritime propulsion systems and industry as data centres are. You talk about Nuclear (meaning Fission) and fail to discuss fusion. https://lnkd.in/ge_aeX7M The nuclear fission industry is, ignorant of what's happening around you. Pull your uranium heads out, start adjusting your industry to fusion energy and start preparing to enter the commercially growing fusion energy industry. As it dawns on Earth like the sun. Great Headline Guardian on Nuclear fission. https://lnkd.in/g8sMZtpR Fission is moving towards obsolescence at an accelerated pace, as it is "out of step, out of time, out of place," and merely a temporary industry globally. https://lnkd.in/gbd_mZqk By 2028, Helion is expected to start producing electricity from its first fusion commercial power plant, which will provide electricity to Microsoft. The plant will produce at least 50 MWe after an initial ramp-up period. https://lnkd.in/gY9J3MQY Now see what is happening in the Fusion industry in the world. https://lnkd.in/g9hMBD7a As fission trebles, fuel shortage is increasingly real,

Nuclear for Australia founder Will Shackel says it takes “very little” for a politician to put their hand up and support the ban on nuclear energy being lifted in Australia. Australia is the only G20 nation which prohibits the development of nuclear energy. “We should be able to have all energy options being considered in Australia – as every single other country around the world is able to,” Mr Shackel told Sky News host Steve Price. “We are out of step with the rest of the world. “If we want to have a pragmatic approach to our energy transition and be able to get to net zero, then the only way to do that is by – at the very least – considering the role for nuclear energy.” https://lnkd.in/dP3ccxRV

Best invest in Building and talking about Fusion power, space, maritime propulsion systems and industry as data centres are. Great Headline, Guardian on Nuclear fission. https://lnkd.in/g8sMZtpR People talk about Nuclear (meaning Fission) and fail to discuss fusion. https://lnkd.in/ge_aeX7M The nuclear fission industry is ignorant of what's happening around it. It must pull its collective uranium heads out of the sand and prepare to enter the commercially growing fusion energy industry. Fission is moving towards obsolescence at an ever-increasing pace, as it is "out of step, out of time, out of place, and soon to be out of Fuel" and merely temporary. https://lnkd.in/gbd_mZqk By 2028, Helion is expected to start producing electricity from its first fusion commercial power plant, which will provide electricity to Microsoft. The plant will produce at least 50 MWe after an initial ramp-up period. https://lnkd.in/gY9J3MQY Now, see what is happening in the world of the fusion industry. https://lnkd.in/g9hMBD7a As fission trebles, fuel shortage is increasingly real, https://lnkd.in/gze5rwpr

STANDARD NUCLEAR POWER EXPANSION   -   CHINA/GUANGXI

While it is very exciting that some movement is finally happening with small modular nuclear reactors (SMRs), when I read this article, it begins to concern me that rural electric cooperatives & public power, who provide electricity to millions of residential electricity users, will be competing directly against the Googles, Amazons & Microsofts for a shrinking supply of available power supply resources. Economics 101: when there is short supply & increasing demand, prices go up. The big players have very deep pockets, mainly because they can shift those costs into what they charge for their products, fractions of cents at a time, and pass it on to buyers…those same people who will be paying more for electricity from their power supplier due to shrinking resource availability. These are issues we must be addressing now before they become a bigger problem. Let’s be proactive instead of reactive. Let’s talk about the “taboo” topics & look for solutions that can work for everyone. A great mentor of mine told me recently “we must stop saying what won’t work, and we must look for solutions that will work.” I loved that advice! #ElectricCooperatives #NRECA #energy #publicpower #APPA

Kazakhstan to hold referendum on nuclear power plant on October 6 The discussion on constructing a nuclear power plant in Kazakhstan has persisted since the shutdown of the Soviet-era reactor in Aktau in 1999, with the need for nuclear energy being revisited multiple times to enhance energy security and address climate change. 👉Details — https://lnkd.in/d__sH26c #Kazakhstan #NuclearEnergy #Referendum #EnergySecurity #ClimateChange #KazakhstanReferendum #NuclearPower #EnergyPolicy #Energy

Description Ultra Safe Nuclear Corporation – Micro Modular Reactor (MMR) Australian Nuclear Association 54 Likes 1,056 Views Dec 12 2023 Presentation by James Voss, Managing Director, USNC Australia. Australian Nuclear Association ANA2023 Conference, held Friday 6 October 2023 at the Aerial UTS Function Centre, Ultimo, NSW. Introduced by Michelle Durant, Managing Director at The Australian Institute of Nuclear Science and Engineering - AINSE Limited. USNC’s Micro Modular Reactor (MMR) is a 45 MWth or 15 MWe generating plant. It is a high temperature gas cooled reactor. Everything about the MMR has been designed for safety. Lessons learned from previous nuclear incidents – Three Mile Island, Chernobyl, Fukushima – have been fully integrated into the design to ensure safety. Ongoing licensing in Canada and the United States for USNC’s first two projects have affirmed that the MMR can be deployed with zero set back distance. In Illinois, MMR is being developed for installation within the center of a university campus with over 50,000 students, faculty and staff circulating nearby. This is achievable because of the absence of credible events that can lead to the release of radioactive material from the MMR. The plants are “walk away safe” requiring no operator intervention or the availability of sophisticated external safety systems to assure performance.

An excellent overview prepared in a very pedagogic way by U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) covering eight terms often used in nuclear power context. https://lnkd.in/dSca3kwV