Monday, December 20, 2021

Nuke power

While Rolls Royce is famous for its classic cars they are also prominent in the nuclear power business. For many years they have been producing the power plants for nuke submarines. They have now joined hands with the British and French governments along with Exon Oil to build small thorium nuke plants. These will be along the same idea that several other companies as well as other countries are now actively pursuing. They will be built in assembly line fashion and shipped for onsite instillation. First step is to build the building so the instillation will not be impeded by weather. Each plant will produce enough energy to power 200,000 homes. Each will use left over heat to produce hydrogen which will be the fuel of the future for transportation and desalting sea water. The plants are safe and can be built near populated areas to reduce the cost of transporting power. They are called small molten salt thorium reactors and are safe because the nuclear chain reaction stops when any problems develop. These plants can use up existing stores of nuclear waste products and they produce zero carbon.

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