auch polen geht nun den weg richtung smr in eigenbau
Polish chemicals group Synthos and petrochemical firm PKN Orlen have agreed to cooperate on micro modular reactors (MMRs) and small modular reactors (SMRs). Under an agreement announced today, both companies will jointly carry out research and explore the feasibility of deploying such reactors at Orlen's production plants in Poland.
sowie der erste campus rüstet auf 
The University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC) has informed the US Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) that it intends to construct an Ultra Safe Nuclear Corporation (USNC) Micro Modular Reactor on its campus. The university said the submission of the Letter of Intent is the first step in the NRC's two-step process to license the new research and test reactor facility.
UIUC's Grainger College of Engineering (and its Department of Nuclear, Plasma, and Radiological Engineering), in collaboration with USNC, is spearheading the new reactor deployment. In a joint statement, UIUC and USNC said the project team has spent the past two years engaging with the university and surrounding community; local, state and federal governments; and potential industry partners.
"The docketing of these efforts with the NRC will help the team continue to provide transparency of the project status," they added.
The new research and test reactor facility will offer UIUC staff and students a diverse set of opportunities for research: instrumentation and control, multi-physics validation, reactor prototype testing, micro-grid operations, cybersecurity, hydrogen production for transportation and energy storage, and other energy intensive, high-value products.
The university plans to re-power partially its coal-fired Abbott power station with the USNC Micro Modular Reactor (MMR) Energy System, providing a zero-carbon demonstration of district heat and power to campus buildings as part of its green campus initiative. The project team aims to demonstrate how microreactor systems integrate with existing fossil fuel infrastructure to accelerate the decarbonisation of existing power-generation facilities.
In addition to supporting the UIUC's clean energy goals, the microreactor will serve as a valuable workforce training tool for a new generation of nuclear scientists, engineers and operators.
"Nuclear energy and microreactor technology are poised to play an important role in building a cleaner and more sustainable future," said Rashid Bashir, dean of Grainger College of Engineering. "This proposed reactor continues our proud tradition of leading academia in the pursuit of safe, transformative nuclear technologies, and enables us to innovatively train and develop the next generation workforce to lead the nation’s new economy."
USNC's MMR is a 15 MW thermal, 5 MW electrical high-temperature gas-cooled reactor, drawing on operational experience from reactors developed by China, Germany, Japan and the USA. It consists of two plants: the nuclear plant that generates heat, and the adjacent power plant that converts heat into electricity or provides process heat for industrial applications. The USNC system is designed to be simple, with minimal operation and maintenance requirements, and no on-site fuel storage, handling or processing. The MMR uses TRISO fuel in prismatic graphite blocks and has a sealed transportable core.
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ich denke die wenigsten setzen hier auf "weltuntergang". dann wären ja alle minen einfach nur ein optionality play.... dies ist bei mir definitiv nicht der fall.