Ultra Safe Nuclear Corporation - Micro Modular Reactor (MMR)

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6 ай бұрын

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.

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@davidwilkie9551 Ай бұрын

Safest thing to say to that, "Yes please". Showing the truthful respect for physical systems and responsibility for operational practices is about the only real limitation, ..cost is not irrelevant because while we wait for implementation of this project, the cost to the Earth's living people and supporting ecosystem is immeasurable.

@edwardbec9844 17 күн бұрын

These small MMR's in My Opinion could only be useful in Remote Locations .. Military Bases , Mining sites even some remote towns that still use Diesel Generators so its a big no to MMR's taking existing Coal Fired Power stations locations they aren't Big enough to Replace what is being Blown Up this also goes for state governments and energy providers placing a 500 Mega Watt Battery explodes into flames and its gone where once stood a 2 GigaWatt Coal Stations the mind boggles at the Ineptitude of these people ..

@stephenbrickwood1602 6 ай бұрын

Australia has 25gW fossil fuel generation capacity, 600gWh daily max when required. The grid has a matching max capacity when required. 20million buildings in Australia including 10million homes of which only 3million have rooftop solar PV. We know that such a small number can cause blackouts if the grid is over loaded and the South Australia big battery is a profitable stabiliser on the grid. The grid is fragile because it was so EXPENSIVE to construct over many decades. 66% of electricity bills are grid costs. $1TRILLION and the Australian GDP is $1.5 TRILLIONS. So no fossil fuels, no imported petroleum, no natural gas heating, no coal burning then we need 5TIMES MORE ELECTRICITY. 5TIMES BIGGER national electric grid. Snowy 2 grid connect construction has increased its construction budget 6 TIMES and it is said 8 TIMES, to $15billion and the 4years is now a decade to complete. More grid is 3 TIMES the Australian GDP. And a century to build. Add those costs to the nuclear micro solution. We are stopping CO2 proliferation and climate destabilisation yes ??? So 9billion people with safe nuclear industries and massive national grids. Free electricity costs $ TRILLIONS to transport on transmission grids. Rolls Royce is a good looking car but most people do not buy them. Most people look beyond the appearance. The existing grid has to be UNLOADED and protected. Generation and storage at the ends of the National Electricity Grid is the only solution.

@jshellenberger7876 2 ай бұрын

#King Take everything for free because 7-Eleven has free electricity. How long is 7-Eleven? My kids have free electricity I go to school every day and there’s no air-conditioning. No air conditioning in the school and 37°C. This is why we’re forced to sleep most of the day here in the village, the corruption here in this village is outrage seen the equipment #Pow

@stephenbrickwood1602 3 ай бұрын

Nuclear is like someone admiring their foot crossing the road and the truck runs over them, the economic truck. People forget our power bills are grid rental bills and a little electricity thrown in. Electricity is dirt cheap. Grid expansion construction costs are stupendously expensive.

@stephenbrickwood1602 6 ай бұрын

Government disaster insurance Government guaranteed cash flows Government laws banning rooftop solar PV and self generation and home batteries. Government built massive national grid capacity expansion construction. 66%of electricity bills are grid costs.

@stephenbrickwood1602 6 ай бұрын

Australia has 25gW of fossil fueled electricity generation. These 15mW nuclear micro plants mean Australia needs 1,700 of these for fossil free electricity generation. With no fossil fuels means 5 times more electricity. This means 8,500 of these nuclear micro plants.

@cerealport2726 3 ай бұрын

or, it means some of these MMRs, and some much larger reactors... Why not deploy some small reactors instead of Solar or Wind, while building much larger, more "traditional" reactors?

@stephenbrickwood1602 3 ай бұрын

@@cerealport2726 The dirty secret, electricity is dirt cheap. My feed-in tariff is 14% of my electricity bill. Grid rental is the expensive part, 86%. More grid capacity is uneconomic. Central generation is a dead duck. Electric energy is 15% of total energy used. No fossil future means 7 times more electricity generation. 7 times more grid capacity. The grid is stupendously expensive.

@cerealport2726 3 ай бұрын

@@stephenbrickwood1602 a feed-in tariff is the amount of money you are taking from taxpayers. You are part of the problem. On average in Australia, network costs are 45% of an electricity bill. You're very likely just making up numbers. When you talk about centralised generation being dead, and the cost of poles and wires. It's an antiquated argument used by ignorant ideologues who seem to think electricity can be easily decentralised and we no longer need a grid. You've probably never been in the same room as a qualified and competent engineer, let alone anyone on the upstream end of electricity grid operations, have you?

@stephenbrickwood1602 3 ай бұрын

@@cerealport2726 I have worked on 1,700 tower transmission line. 4 piled foundations for each tower. 6,800 drilled concrete piles. Actually climbed and inspected, 830 towers. Worked on stg C and D Muja coal fired power stations, dirt to complete generation hall. Worked on gas turbine electricity generation stations in Indonesia. Priced and built many large projects, I don't call people names, grow up and learn. Aidan Morrison said 66% of electricity bills is grid construction costs. Robert Parker said, Snowy 2.0 transmission costs are ridiculous. Snowy budget $10BILLION over. Many of these nuclear promoters say new grids construction costs are $1million per klm and Australia has 1million klm. Grids are fragile because they are expensive to build and never overbuilt. Tell the f..king nuclear promoters they are wrong. Tell snowy 2's budget explosion is wrong. Grow up.

@stephenbrickwood1602 3 ай бұрын

@@cerealport2726 $326 for 615kWh is my bill. $0.53 / kWh, feed in tariff is 7.6c/kWh ,14%. Bill paid last month. The electricity is dirt cheap, a dirty secret. The old 60c/ kWh FiT, in the early days was a government subsidy.

@stephenbrickwood1602 6 ай бұрын

Nuclear industries for 9billion people??? I think that you better add military defence cost's exploding defence budgets. We are trying to stop CO2 proliferation worldwide ????