Do you know about Chinese projections/plans/studies regarding further reactor construction time reductions? The best current projects such as Zhangzhou already approach 5 years.
What part of the plant is the limiting factor at the moment? The reactor/containment building, I suppose?
Does China also have/allow private nuclear power projects? The US and Europe currently have a very active SMR startup scene with many different designs being developed (if they cross.thebfinish line, we will see).
Thank you very much for the detailed article. Chinese nuclear is bit of a black box for the Western readers, so very useful article. The minor actinide burning progress is potentially very important for the global success of nuclear power, since long lived waste is one of the (if exaggerated) counterarguments.
Fuel reprocessing and waste separation leads to more low and intermediate level waste. To what extent does the AIROX differ from PUREX in this regard?
That's a good question that is probably impossible to answer definitively at this point. There have been estimates (e.g. https://inis.iaea.org/collection/NCLCollectionStore/_Public/24/063/24063186.pdf - 4.1 Disposition of Wastes Generated via the AIROX Process) based on U.S. LWR assumptions, and even these are somewhat uncertain because AIROX has never been done beyond the laboratory. Then there are uncertainties depending on the composition of the spent fuel coming out of the ADS system, which hasn't been done on any meaningful scale. But I can't imagine that the volume would be outrageous
Do you know about Chinese projections/plans/studies regarding further reactor construction time reductions? The best current projects such as Zhangzhou already approach 5 years.
What part of the plant is the limiting factor at the moment? The reactor/containment building, I suppose?
Does China also have/allow private nuclear power projects? The US and Europe currently have a very active SMR startup scene with many different designs being developed (if they cross.thebfinish line, we will see).
Thank you very much for the detailed article. Chinese nuclear is bit of a black box for the Western readers, so very useful article. The minor actinide burning progress is potentially very important for the global success of nuclear power, since long lived waste is one of the (if exaggerated) counterarguments.
Fuel reprocessing and waste separation leads to more low and intermediate level waste. To what extent does the AIROX differ from PUREX in this regard?
That's a good question that is probably impossible to answer definitively at this point. There have been estimates (e.g. https://inis.iaea.org/collection/NCLCollectionStore/_Public/24/063/24063186.pdf - 4.1 Disposition of Wastes Generated via the AIROX Process) based on U.S. LWR assumptions, and even these are somewhat uncertain because AIROX has never been done beyond the laboratory. Then there are uncertainties depending on the composition of the spent fuel coming out of the ADS system, which hasn't been done on any meaningful scale. But I can't imagine that the volume would be outrageous