ThorCon is a nuclear reactor with molten salt fuel containing thorium+uranium that is walk-away-safe. ThorCon would be completely manufactured in 150 to 500 ton blocks in a shipyard, assembled and towed to a site, with order of magnitude improvements in productivity, quality control, and build time.
But the ThorCon takes a different tack on manufacturing. It would be completely manufactured in 150 to 500 ton blocks in a shipyard, assembled, then towed to the site, producing order of magnitude improvements in productivity, quality control, and build time.
A single large reactor yard can turn out twenty gigawatts of ThorCon power plants per year, providing clean, reliable, CO2-free electricity at 3¢/kWh - cheaper than coal. ThorCon is divided into 250 MWe power modules or PMODs. Each module contains two replaceable reactors in sealed Cans. The Cans sit in silos.Of course, this reactor, like most SMRs, is walk-away-safe. The public will not embrace anything else. Since ThorCon fuel is a liquid salt, if the reactor overheats for whatever reason, ThorCon will shut itself down, and passively handle the decay heat. No power, no machinery, no operator action is required. This is built into the reactor physics.
The plant is also an extremely strong structure. It cannot not be penetrated even by a Boeing jet in a perpendicular impact at 400 knots. The hull, which is a double barrier, is only one of at least three gas tight barriers between the fuel salt and the atmosphere. The Can silo is a gas tight structure; and the Can itself is a gas tight structure. All these must be breached to allow a release.
All the while generating only one cask of waste every four years. It’s easy to forget that a normal coal plant takes 10,000 tons of coal each day, or just under 15,000,000 tons in that same 4-year period.
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