Wow, my dad was one of Westinghouse's first nuclear engineers in the 50's. He would be very proud to know that Westinghouse is still making a difference.

@ClausMallorca

6 ай бұрын

😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

Just amazing. I am convinced that the true energy transition and decarbonization goes through nuclear energy. I wish the best to this new microreactor technology.

Please send me one for my Cordless Tesla !!! Im ready to glow.

@fidelcatsro6948

6 ай бұрын

I have a steam generator you could use 😂😂

I am so impressed and excited! I have an interview to be a part of this! Wish me luck!

Strange... no mention of "TRi-structural ISOtropic particle fuel" or that this is a very high temperature reactor. It seems a bit light on details to be a reality...ready to sell.

@nathanj202

3 ай бұрын

Mentioned at 0:42

In fact, they have an extremely vast experience in the field. Such small reactors don't need expensive security measures as they contain too little fuel. Compared to Chornobyl reactor, each of them is thousands times smaller unable to pollute larger territories. And technology is well proved and used in various military applications

These would be fantastic on the moon or Mars.

Some questions left unanswered: 1. What fuel does it use? 2. If you use it at half its power capacity, would it last twice as long, or no? 3. Estimated cost per kWh? 4. Estimated E.R.O.I.?

@Petriiik

6 ай бұрын

Fuel is Triso Haleu. You can control the Performance using the control drum. Less Performance means longer life. 3. and 4. actually good questions.

What is the energy expenditure for producing both initial and subsequent 8-year replacements?

What happens to the removed unit when removed? Only claim they will take it away. Imagine what that cost would be if it's hazardous waste.

Rien sur le principe de fonctionnement, bravo !!!!!

Why is the earth spinning backwards in the beginning of the video?

@orien2v2

6 ай бұрын

Shows how much they care about the planet!

@Carlos-im3hn

Ай бұрын

yup ! someone should tell them not to do that !!

Wow I cant believe!!! WOOOOW!!🎉🎉🎉🎉😮😮😊😊

What are the feasibility calculations, money money.

Exactly what we need here in philippines but we dont have the dough 😂. Lots of problems will be solved especially in mindanao island. Carbon from indonesia is now expensive not to mention the emissions. We have our old westinghouse reactor in the late 70's all wasted because of bad politics. Westinghouse please give us another shot! We can do this! Cheers american friends.

What happens to the reactor after 8 years? Where does it go and how is it stored? What is the impact on the environment of a spent reactor?

@fakumadda1632

6 ай бұрын

Perhaps toss it into space? They already have a device in the US that can catapult heavy objects into space from the ground. Just an idea.

@fidelcatsro6948

6 ай бұрын

They use it on ammunition tips probably😂😂😂

@LeCharles07

6 ай бұрын

They put it on a train which promptly derails in a suburb. 🙃

@droiduser1984

6 ай бұрын

"Once the fuel is exhausted, the microreactor can be hauled away for disposal and another one plugged in its place to continue operations on-site, much like a battery. The microreactor is equipped with shutdown rods that are used during transport for increased safety. The nuclear fuel can be stored in deep geological repositories (DGR) for long-term storage." -- Interesting Engineering article excerpt

@droiduser1984

6 ай бұрын

​​@@LeCharles07in which case they could simply load it onto a transport truck and drive it to it's destination -- unlike a train full of propane, natural gas, gasoline or diesel oil -- which could explode and destroy the town....

Sounds cool. Hope it works. Please don't kill us all.

@deekamikaze

6 ай бұрын

Nuclear energy is safer and cleaner than every other energy source out there

@fidelcatsro6948

6 ай бұрын

Exactly what they mean, why did you tell everyone here?

@droiduser1984

6 ай бұрын

Just you 😂

@fidelcatsro6948

6 ай бұрын

@@droiduser1984 more little Fukushimas and Chernobyls on the way i guess

@chriswilson9331

6 ай бұрын

Not anymore than were already being killed.

These are significantly safer being so much smaller in footprint, and ultimately can provide power exactly where its needed removing the need for expensive transport of the electricity.

"Created with our customers in mind..." As opposed to *what*?

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This is fantastic ❤

Çok güzel bir buluş..

What does MWe stand for? Is that a fancy way of saying megawatt?

@user-ep9hg7pu6d

8 ай бұрын

It's megawatt for electricity, my friend. This concept is always in the electricity power plant. While MWth is megawatt for thermal. Due to the efficiency is always less than 1, MWth is always larger than MWe.

@fidelcatsro6948

6 ай бұрын

​@@user-ep9hg7pu6dso it's basically saying you produce more heat than usable electric energy?...this is not fair I demand more money be spent on r&D to produce devices output greater than 1..I want overunity devices available to public such as the Testatika !

@mohammeddavidzhang-singh5846

6 ай бұрын

1 MWth (th=thermal) yields in about 300 to 400 kWe (electric). I assume 30 to 40 % efficiency. As smaller the unit the lower the efficency.

So slick, with so little information.

WOW , is it possible to buy?

What fuel does it use? Thorium?

@fiaadmin92

6 ай бұрын

let me guess.... Strontium-90 ?

@Carlos-im3hn

Ай бұрын

Uranium (U) based HALEU (< 20% enriched). These HALEU TRISO particles "run hot" and generate some plutonium (Pt). Then both U and Pt "burn" and not all the Pt gets used up. However the ceramic encapsulated TRISO particles contain nearly all (99.999%) of the U and Pt reactants (vs. old-school "open air" fuels for old Gen I and Gen II, and Gen III and some Gen III+ reactors)

Well with all the money saved on electric costs each location that has one will be able to hire enough security to make sure that that thing's not hijacked! Aren't they going to be a huge security risk? Maybe think about thorium instead of the bad boys for fuel since thorium can't be used for dirty device or repeated? Just my thoughts.

@ataze_7292

6 ай бұрын

I feel like anybody that wants to build a nuclear bomb would have the means to obtain such materials without stealing them from an active generator

@Carlos-im3hn

Ай бұрын

yes. There are huge security implications. The entire nuclear team on these will probably need DoD clearances to even get within 1000 feet of the reactors. worries are possible...but should be handled. It would be possible to give these reactors some military grade to ensure they get protected 24/7. Maybe another new branch of nuclear safety organization and operations will arise to protect these "portable" micro-reactors.

Westinghouse will be a leader in deployed SMR capacity in no short order ;)

How much ?

@fidelcatsro6948

6 ай бұрын

If we outsource to China, we could get one of these for the price of a Toyota Corolla😂😂

I imagine spent fuel is shipped to…Finland’s nuke waste facility (?)

@Carlos-im3hn

Ай бұрын

or the re-started Yucca Mountain in Harry Reed's old district.

" Heat pipe " technology?? My North Korean cat says it probably means air cooled 😂😂

@roberthigbee3260

6 ай бұрын

Ha, ha… no, a heat pipe is a real thing. The most simple version is just a long somewhat skinny tube filled with a volatile fluid like ammonia or acetone. They usually need to be tilted at an angle so that the fluid pools at one end. If you apply heat to that end (heat released from radioactive decay in this case) the fluid sucks up the heat by boiling, then the vapor rises to the other end, which is cooler, where the vapor condenses and releases the heat. They show a quick cross-section view that shows a whole bunch of these tubular heat pipes. The heat pipes help maintain a hermetic seal. They probably have a fancy working fluid in their heat pipes since the reactor gets very hot. BTW, this is a really poor video. The device they show just makes heat, not electricity. If you go to their web site, they have a schematic that shows the whole system. The heat from this micro reactor has to go to a separate steam turbine powered generator to generate electricity. In this video, at the 36 second time mark, they show the generator in the background of the internal view of the building. Their web site implies that some customers would just use this reactor to make heat.

@fidelcatsro6948

6 ай бұрын

@@roberthigbee3260 i see thanks for clarifying, 🐱👍

Is it that this takes the cool atmosphere air of NORTH AMERICA ?? go cooling?? If NOT then how the cooling is achieved??!

@fidelcatsro6948

6 ай бұрын

Air cooled like my 100cc Yamaha powerplant

No water is required for operation or cooling.....eh....

@Carlos-im3hn

Ай бұрын

There are two types of cooling for GenIV reactors. 1. High-Temperature Gas Cooled: using 750C Helium noble gas that remains a gas and has no phase changes (vs. GenIII+ water cooled that goes from water to steam to high-temperature steam). The helium remains a gas all the time so is very easy to predict its properties. 2. molten salt cooled: which remains a liquid at around 550C. Around 800C the molten salt begins to turn into a gas...so they keep it around 550C maximum temperature. Again this MSR (molten salt reactor) does not undergo any phase changes to gas, so is easier to predict performance.

Price? Electric power? Market entry? Fuel type (enrichment level)? Nuclear waste handling? So many open issues. I recommend PV and wind turbines: available now!

MR FUSION

@Carlos-im3hn

Ай бұрын

These are slightly fast reactors converting some U into Pt and burning both (but not all Pt). These are 100% fission reactors using both U and later Pt as fuels in the same TRISO coated and ceramic encapsulated fuel particles. These new fangled TRISO fuel particles retain 99.999% of the U and Pt held inside which is intrinsically safe. Very few radiation is emitted and relatively easy to handle vs GenIII and older fuels. Xe-100 also continuously refuel and have 60 mm diameter "baseball" sized pebbles that have thousands of TRISO particles within each. The TRISO is the special sauce for these GenIV reactors (that are using TRISO).

After 8 year what do you guys do with the waste then? You guys dont say a shitt about that.

@droiduser1984

6 ай бұрын

'Once the fuel is exhausted, the microreactor can be hauled away for disposal and another one plugged in its place to continue operations on-site, much like a battery. The microreactor is equipped with shutdown rods that are used during transport for increased safety. The nuclear fuel can be stored in deep geological repositories (DGR) for long-term storage.'

@tmyrdal

6 ай бұрын

@@droiduser1984 ok so you say ust put it away somwhere on Earth, and let it get bigger and bigger. This dont resolve the main problem, that is the radioaktive waste. You guys saying its not recycleable at this point then. So the waste is still there. And you guys ust push away and store it in a storage that will be bigger and bigger to more people that are using the product. When you have a way of recycling the waste that day you guys will have a furture. Not now.

@Carlos-im3hn

Ай бұрын

Once the TRISO fuel is "burnt up" it can not go critical again and is inherently safe. TRISO fuel particles are ceramic (glass) coated and only emit 0.001% of any fuel...retaining 99.999% of the fuel. This is much safer than GenI, GenII, GenIII reactors that did not have TRISO or ceramic coating and were "open air" nuclear fuels.

@Carlos-im3hn

Ай бұрын

@@tmyrdal The TRISO fuel particles are gamechaning. Please look at the new TRISO particles which have been under development for over 30 years and now being industrialized. See X-Energy which will be the first commercial company producing TRISO fuels for their own Xe-100 SMRs. The X-Energy will also sell their TRISO to Westinghouse or GE/Hitachi. The 1000MWe GenIII+ AP1000 Westinghouse reactors a few built, and the new GenIII+ GE/Hitachi few are being built in UK and possibly Canada. The GenIII+ are still light-water reactors so retain many issues with "old school" issues of radioactive water and old fuels. Some work is going into using TRISO fuel in the GenIII+ reactors to make them much safer and less radioactive. Generally the GenIV reactors are all SMRs (less than 300 MWe) and are TRISO fueled and can have either Helium gas cooled or Molten liquid salt cooled. The GenIV reactors are smaller (< 300 MWe) so will be mass produced and manufactured at the manufacturing facility and then shipped using roads or ships to installation sites. Some SMRs and all micro-reactors are fuelled at the manufacturing site. Some SMRs like Xe-100 are fueled continuously during operation and only at assembly site.

@tmyrdal

Ай бұрын

@@Carlos-im3hn main thing your system is still not 0 / zero bad waste.

disfunction info

No explican nada de cómo funciona.

yeaaaaahh! that's like a Radioisotope Thermoelectric Generator, ...soviet union built thousands of them in the 70's 🤣😂😅

Is this believable, ??? or just another fake internet video to get clicks, ?????

@theboz1419

6 ай бұрын

Its real, although, I would like to no more about what is done with the spent rods after 8 years.

@fidelcatsro6948

6 ай бұрын

Collect all the funds then disappear to jamaica

This is incredibly cool that you can make nuclear energy portable but what happens to the spent generators? Maybe recycled but what about the fuel? It reduces carbon waste but is the more dangerous for a longer duration nuclear waste really better? Wind, water, sunlight, and heat can all be found anywhere. Not all of them are in every location but pretty much anywhere you go theres at least one of them. What if we put turbines in water pipes in cities to recover some of the energy lost while pumping it? Or find a way to produce electricity from rain. Just think natural. People are always digging stuff up to make new fuels, destroying the planet from beginning to end. Mining destroys the beauty and serenity of the planet as well as natural habitats and the machines used create carbon waste then they ship it with carbon waste machines to factories that do the same and products and fuel become harmful waste and are not properly recycle when possible. If we found a use for the nuclear waste and put our brains together to mine an asteroid or uninhabited planet I'd be all for it. I understand humans have become materialistic but we should try to use what we have and turn the old into the new. Have yall seen a landfill? Perhaps not. Youre not allowed to film without permission cause its so bad. Trash including many many many things that could have been recycled and many that cant piled probably 30 feet high and half an acre wide being shoved into the ground shoved into the earth, our home and were all contributing but its all right because theres money to ve made. But i think you could make the same amount of money or more recycling old things than buying new materials. It would be WAAAAAY better for your great grandkinds thats for sure but at this rate its gonna end up like the Lorax seriously. Again, this machines really cool. but why does everyone think its bad to care for our place of creation? Just build clean.

@Carlos-im3hn

Ай бұрын

The new inherently safe TRISO fuel particles are "spent" internally. The volume of the ceramic coated TRISO particles does not change as the internal elments are "burned up". The small TRISO particles are used in a few ways, the most common are two ways: 1. TRISO embedded pellets vertically stacked in tubes, 2. TRISO particles combined in a 60mm diameter baseball sized "pebble". Whether TRISO embedded tubular pellets, or TRISO embedded 60mm baseball...they are all radioactive waste; however, the TRISO particles retain 99.999% of all Uranium (U) or Plutonium (Pt) generated, so the waste products are relatively safe to handle and transport, and long-term disposal. TRISO is what makes these new designs much safer and inherently safe. In USA they will probably re-start/re-open Yucca Mountain in Harry Reed's old district for long-term storage. Again, the TRISO ceramic coated particles are very safe and remain safe for many centuries or millenia (inherently safe).

nothing burger. what type? coolant? temp? fuel grade? output? even the visualistion sucks, looks like late 90's such a promising reactor, well established company, and this - video on par with crypto scams...

Let's just hope it doesn't malfunction like North America made cars 🥴and blowup like a nuclear bomb 🙀🙀🙀

How about some details? This video is useless. It gives no data on system capabilities, etc. I know you folks want to advertise, but the best way to advertise is to deliver steak with the sizzle. This video fails to do that.

@J123G

8 ай бұрын

I doubt this will get approval and become a reality. The general fear of a nuke accident will be the major reason. Pulling that 'reactor' on a trailer as the video shows would get major thumbs down from any regulatory group for sure. The video shows the reactor but what about the generating end of the equation. That is no minor detail and was left out of their 'advertisement '.

@waynesworldofsci-tech

8 ай бұрын

@@J123G That’s why we need to know more. The devil is in the details. There’s been lots of promising technologies that just weren’t practical, at least at the time.

@jarofranta153

8 ай бұрын

@@J123G looks to be a Brayton machine next to the reactor. They say there is no water, so that's a big clue.

@Sugengriyadi212

8 ай бұрын

Just google it bro,please. You can find some data about evinci..

@rebellucy6200

6 ай бұрын

Agreed. They casually left out the biggest problem. In 8 years they just replace it with another one. Where does the spent fuel go? Into a landfill? What about earthquakes or another natural disaster ?

What could go wrong?🤣. Terrorists: come on down!!!

@fidelcatsro6948

6 ай бұрын

Ok amigo here we come! I'm bringing a Macdonald's happy meal for you too on the way! Thanks for the tip!

@droiduser1984

6 ай бұрын

In what way is it different from current Nuclear reactors, gas pipelines, oil storage tanks, propane storage tanks, electric grids, hydro dams, etc being open to terrorist attacks? Crickets...

@fidelcatsro6948

6 ай бұрын

@@droiduser1984 it's much more portable and can be carried on our ever reliable Toyota pick up trucks

@kh485

6 ай бұрын

Boom!!!😂😂😂

Portable Chernobyl disaster

@droiduser1984

6 ай бұрын

Nonsense!! 😂 another armchair Internet atomic scientist?? Chernobyl is an ENTIRELY different science Duh!!

@chriswilson9331

6 ай бұрын

Indeed, nonsense...unless the control rods are made of graphite 😅