Also because material science hasn't cracked the brittleness problem at commercial scale without just replacing all the tubing every couple years which obviously doesn't make sense. There are several private companies and nation states trying to solve this problem at this very second.
There's a lot of new smaller reactor gen III+ designs that are interesting and hopefully able to be commercialized as well as some distant gen IV stuff, but everything is decades out from commercialization (LFTR among those). The nut will be cracked I'm positive, but it will be too little too late for our current climate predicament (same with fusion or other exotic generation tech).
so gas cooled, etc might be viable before everything goes to shit? what about more efficient heat to electricity conversion..like using MHD turbines? or is that too far out too?
I didn't really dig deep into alternative generators so I'm not sure where the commercialization process of that is (though it's pretty cool). Most of my nuke knowledge is from some really in depth state of the industry reports I worked on and is fairly domain specific and linked to it's viability as a climate change friendly source of generation.
ahh ok. you're still better informed then I am i'm just a casual enthusiast. the whole field of power generation is just extremely interesting to me and that sounds pretty fascinating.
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also using safer, molten salt type reactors and other good stuff that's basically been abandoned because it's not profitable
Also because material science hasn't cracked the brittleness problem at commercial scale without just replacing all the tubing every couple years which obviously doesn't make sense. There are several private companies and nation states trying to solve this problem at this very second.
hmm i'll have to do more reading i didn't know that was the roadblock. any other non-water next gen reactor designs we could build with current tech?
There's a lot of new smaller reactor gen III+ designs that are interesting and hopefully able to be commercialized as well as some distant gen IV stuff, but everything is decades out from commercialization (LFTR among those). The nut will be cracked I'm positive, but it will be too little too late for our current climate predicament (same with fusion or other exotic generation tech).
so gas cooled, etc might be viable before everything goes to shit? what about more efficient heat to electricity conversion..like using MHD turbines? or is that too far out too?
I didn't really dig deep into alternative generators so I'm not sure where the commercialization process of that is (though it's pretty cool). Most of my nuke knowledge is from some really in depth state of the industry reports I worked on and is fairly domain specific and linked to it's viability as a climate change friendly source of generation.
ahh ok. you're still better informed then I am i'm just a casual enthusiast. the whole field of power generation is just extremely interesting to me and that sounds pretty fascinating.
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kind of late but here's a wikipedia article. and a more detailed one i read long ago