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#Nucléaire #GénérationIV Feu vert pour le premier réacteur à sels fondus au thorium (TMSR-LF1) en #Chine à Wuwei (Gansu). interestingengineering.com/innovation/tho…
#Nucléaire Pékin veut tester son premier réacteur nucléaire à sels fondus et au thorium. Une technologie présentée comme plus "propre" et plus "sûre", qui intéresse la Chine pour des raisons géostratégiques. france24.com/fr/%C3%A9co-te…
La France qui avait repris des recherches sur ce sujet dans les années 2000 a connu un arrêt brutal de ces recherches il y a une dizaine d'années suite aux volte-faces politiques... depuis 2-3 ans, ce sont les États-Unis qui sollicitent les spécialistes français sur le sujet.
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1/9 The economic top-institute @DIW_Berlin in Germany brought out a new study “Expansion #nuclear power without technical and economic basis”. diw.de/documents/publ… @CKemfert
A little thread about some unsurprising, but for some maybe remarkable findings. Image
2/9 Unsurprising is the conclusion that #nuclear has priced itself out of the market. Construction costs of current generation III+ would have to be reduced with 2/3 in order to maintain the global 10% market share in power production. But those costs are still increasing.
3/9 #SMRs of the light-water type would need production units of several thousands (per design!) to break even their disadvantage of scale, and that would need global harmonisation of #nuclear regulation. Dreams, dreams…
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