Bill Gates join hand with China for New Nuclear Reactor 11:55 PM

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Bill Gate who is Microsoft Corp. co-founder is looking forward in develop new kind of nuclear reactor with China. On the talk at China's Ministry of Science and Technology, Gates said the new type of nuclear reactor going to be very cost low, very safe and generate little waste. He add that no need human action to remain save all the time since these new type design take safety to a new level. In this project, Gate funded company , TerraPower will be working with China to develop the technology that cost $5 billion for research and development in next 5 years. The claimed was confirmed by Sun Qin, the general manager of state-owned China National Nuclear Corporation(CNNC) in last week media.

This join hand will enhanced the growth of nuclear improvement especially in safety aspect and waste issued. Moreover, Bill Gate had vision in alleviate poverty by this cooperation. He pointed that nuclear technology can benefits the local people into alleviate poverty and growth the economic barrier. Nuclear not as bad as people thought. Nuclear can strengthen the economic, build up social life and create international relation among country. A package of superiority comes with nuclear technology. It is win-win situation for local people and also nation itself.

Lets view the nuclear as opportunity not a threat. Realize the positive impact it could brought instead asking for radiation leakage. Change the usual thought so the benefits can be experienced. Think wisely before judging as what Bill Gate do now.

China will grow larger 9:00 PM

While we are still looking into nuclear as energy sources, China - a big player in both energy and economic power take a large step to go ahead with nuclear. Their target consist of three stages :-

• by 2030 - Fast Breed Reactor (FBR) in combination of Pressurized Water Reactor (PWR) will produce 200GWe
• around 2050 - combination of FBR and PWR output are expected to be doubled up to 400GWe 
• by 2100 - full replacement of fossil power plant and electricity are generated by means of nuclear plant instead. The expected output is 1500GWe

To achieve this target, China are looking into some new experimental design like Chinese Experimental Fast Reactor (CEFR) which utilize fast neutron instead - which means neutron doesn't need to be slow down first to achieve a controllable reaction and desired power output like Generation II and III reactors. Some other alternative reactors that China still looking into are:- 

• Chinese Demonstration Fast Reactors (CDFR) - similar to OKBM Afrikantov design. It uses ceramic MOX pallets fuel (breeding ratio of 1.2).
• Chinese Demonstration Fast Breed Reactors (CDFBR) - uses U-Pu-Zr fuel which has higher burn up and breeding ratio of 1.5. These are Generation IV reactors. 

Credit image goes to Xu Mi, Chief Engineer at CIAE : “Fast Reactor Technology Development for Sustainable Supply of Nuclear Energy in China (slide presentation)

So, looks like China is one step ahead to achieve a higher score in never-ending global energy race. With it's current economic growth, energy hunger on such a large scale is already expected. Let's hope we can catch up fast. 

 

You can read more at : Summary of China's fast reactor programme by BraveNewClimate.com