Molten salt reactor

northeastern shore of the Great Salt Lake in the Utah desert with a meters-long straight tail that winds into the counterclockwise curvatures of the spiral. The spiral was planned for months in advance and required a team of many to bring to it to conception and thousands of tons of basalt rock, boulders, salt crystals and mud. Smithson chose the location for its stark, desolate quality and also for the features of the lake, which turns bright red seasonally due to the salt and bacteria that…

At the beginning of my senior year, I applied to almost ten different colleges and universities – from the east coast to the west coast and basically everything in between. I remember my reaction for each and every return letter I got. The one that stood out the most was the letter from Utah State University. Out all of the acceptance letters Utah State University was the only letter that made me jump up and down, and squeal like the excited little girl I was in that moment. My reaction was not…

wd been working at a service station for one year. When he was turned sixteen and obtained a driver's, license his grandfather decided to buy him a Plymouth 2. This gave him a way to go to his grocery store he worked at. When he was working at his job he was still able to take advanced classes that had overall helped him get into a good university. These classes include many different math courses such as algebra, algebra 2, advanced geometry, as well a physics. One of the biggest things that…

energy or wind energy, but it should be considered more often. We learned that though current standard nuclear reactors have room for error the possibility is very low. Even with the creation of nuclear waste and water contamination they still produce more clean power than oil, coal, or natural gas. The real future prospect of nuclear energy lies in the molten salt reactor. By using molten salt and melting down the nuclear material it almost entirely stops the production of nuclear waste. Since…

2. The gas phase catalytic oxidation of benzene reactor model and evaluation of the parametric sensitivity To illustrate the parametric sensitivity analysis, the case of gaseous phase catalytic oxidation of benzene to maleic anhydride was considered (Lupușor et al., 1981). The multi-tubular reactor (heat exchanger type) with the fixed bed catalyst inside a small diameter tubes (under 3 -4 cm) is continously cooled by molten salt mixture (nitrates and nitrites mixture; Maria , 2007). The raw…

Term Paper - Light Water vs Breeder Nuclear Reactor to Replace Grid Introduction One of the most critical global challenges in society is the challenge of energy. The world’s dependence on nonrenewable fossil fuels that power the grid. For a collection of problems associated with fossil fuels, there is a need to adopt alternative energy sources on a wider scale for the sustainability of the world population; a strong alternative is Nuclear energy. Particularly, the process of nuclear fission…

derived from the English word ‘soda’. The appearance of sodium is soft metal that tarnishes within seconds of being exposed to the air. It also reacts vigorously with water. Used as a heat exchanger in some nuclear reactors, and as a reagent in the chemicals industry. But sodium salts have more uses than the metal itself. The biological role is essential to all living things, and humans have known this since prehistoric times. Our bodies contain about 100 grams, but we are constantly losing…

In fact, according to the Nuclear Energy Institute (NEI), only 1 out of the 437 operating nuclear reactors worldwide has been damaged over the course of the past 25 years, and this damage would not have happened if the plant had used up-to-date technology in place of using ceramic conducts which provoked the overheating and posterior explosion at Fukushima’s reactors in 2011. Moreover, it would be almost impossible that happen an accident like Chernobyl because subsequent technological…

source that incorporates thorium which would work in current light water reactors. Where thorium really excels, though, is in a new type of reactor called a “molten salt reactor”. Japanese company IThEMS is in the process of developing technology for these reactors, and they hope to eventually make a shift from the standard light water reactors to these and use the waste generated from the current reactors in the molten salt reactors. Government research is also taking place, with India and…

From the beginning, there has always been awareness of potential destruction. According to the Nuclear Energy Institute, there are 438 nuclear reactors that account for 10.9 percent of global electricity generation with 67 more plants under construction (“Nuclear Energy around the World”). In the aftermath of Three Mile Island and later Chernobyl, global safety precautions have gone into effect…