This will be interesting. I wonder if TVA will need to renew or replace their transmission network to handle the increase in power. That would be an opportunity to harden it against EMP.
The other question is: Where will they get the enriched uranium to fuel the reactors? We used to purchase it from Russia, but that may be out of the question for the time being. Before that, we used to produce it ourselves. Bring that out of mothballs? Finally, there is the option of reprocessing used fuel to obtain a fuel mix of U-238 and plutonium isotopes (mixed oxide fuel). Would NuScale be willing to offer power units fueled with that?
I saw that. It would be good. But it's not enough. You also need an enrichment process and, so far as I know, the U.S. government has the capability (Oak Ridge). A similar thing is needed for fuel reprocessing.
This will be interesting. I wonder if TVA will need to renew or replace their transmission network to handle the increase in power. That would be an opportunity to harden it against EMP.
The other question is: Where will they get the enriched uranium to fuel the reactors? We used to purchase it from Russia, but that may be out of the question for the time being. Before that, we used to produce it ourselves. Bring that out of mothballs? Finally, there is the option of reprocessing used fuel to obtain a fuel mix of U-238 and plutonium isotopes (mixed oxide fuel). Would NuScale be willing to offer power units fueled with that?
There was a post yesterday? detailing American uranium mining making a comeback under Trump.
I saw that. It would be good. But it's not enough. You also need an enrichment process and, so far as I know, the U.S. government has the capability (Oak Ridge). A similar thing is needed for fuel reprocessing.