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Breakthrough in size, safety of a complete nuclear power module in a shipping container

• https://www.nextbigfuture.com, brian wang

Holos Generator is transportable (by heavy lift cargo plane or truck), sealed, self-controlled, highly-efficient, affordable, and load-following, thus providing a generator as a distributable power source. The breakthrough in size and safety enables many breakthrough designs and applications.

The designers Claudio Filippone ad K. Jordan have had previous nuclear reactor designs. The Clean and Environmentally Safe Advanced Reactor (CAESAR) is a nuclear reactor concept created by Claudio Filippone, the Director of the Center for Advanced Energy Concepts at the University of Maryland, College Park. The CAESAR reactor was featured in the Economist Magazine.

The Holos design choices a sub-critical pebble module reactor makes a nuclear reactor that is about 10-20 times smaller than other reactors. The reactor designed to tightly integrate with the turbine that converts the heat to electricity. All of it fits in shipping container.


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