Comments on: Assembling a Nuclear Boom http://newenergyandfuel.com/http:/newenergyandfuel/com/2009/11/04/assembling-a-nuclear-boom/ News and Views for Making and Saving Money in New Energy and Fuel Thu, 11 Mar 2010 00:22:46 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Tim Steinbeck http://newenergyandfuel.com/http:/newenergyandfuel/com/2009/11/04/assembling-a-nuclear-boom/comment-page-1/#comment-34959 Tim Steinbeck Wed, 04 Nov 2009 23:11:28 +0000 http://newenergyandfuel.com/?p=3441#comment-34959 By the way, the photo of the Elk River Station is after the conversion to RDF. The silver towers on the right sit on the site the reactor used to be. They are the spray drier absorbers (scrubber) installed to remove the acid gases from the combustion of the "garbage". By the way, the photo of the Elk River Station is after the conversion to RDF. The silver towers on the right sit on the site the reactor used to be. They are the spray drier absorbers (scrubber) installed to remove the acid gases from the combustion of the “garbage”.

]]> By: Tim Steinbeck http://newenergyandfuel.com/http:/newenergyandfuel/com/2009/11/04/assembling-a-nuclear-boom/comment-page-1/#comment-34958 Tim Steinbeck Wed, 04 Nov 2009 23:03:46 +0000 http://newenergyandfuel.com/?p=3441#comment-34958 This discussion is interesting to observe and does make some sense. I manage the Elk River Station, still in operation after almost 60 years with various lives. For the past 20 years we have been operating the three boiler/turbine generator units firing refuse-derived fuel (RDF - i.e. shredded municipal solid waste from the NW Minneapolis area). This site did host a nuclear generator unit that operated in parallel with the 25 MW pulverized coal boiler from 1963-1968. The nuclear unit was a primary steam generator with an oil-fired secondary superheater. Steam could be sent to the single turbine generator from either the nuclear unit OR the pulverized coal boiler; so it really wasn't converted, but did demonstrate that a nuclear unit could be retrofit to a coal facility. We definitely subscribe to the philosophy of don't throw away a good thermal plant; convert it to a different fuel, be it biomass or nuclear. This discussion is interesting to observe and does make some sense.

I manage the Elk River Station, still in operation after almost 60 years with various lives. For the past 20 years we have been operating the three boiler/turbine generator units firing refuse-derived fuel (RDF – i.e. shredded municipal solid waste from the NW Minneapolis area).

This site did host a nuclear generator unit that operated in parallel with the 25 MW pulverized coal boiler from 1963-1968. The nuclear unit was a primary steam generator with an oil-fired secondary superheater. Steam could be sent to the single turbine generator from either the nuclear unit OR the pulverized coal boiler; so it really wasn’t converted, but did demonstrate that a nuclear unit could be retrofit to a coal facility.

We definitely subscribe to the philosophy of don’t throw away a good thermal plant; convert it to a different fuel, be it biomass or nuclear.

]]> By: Jagdish http://newenergyandfuel.com/http:/newenergyandfuel/com/2009/11/04/assembling-a-nuclear-boom/comment-page-1/#comment-34935 Jagdish Wed, 04 Nov 2009 09:00:16 +0000 http://newenergyandfuel.com/?p=3441#comment-34935 India's National Thermal Power Corporation are thinking of tying up with Nuclear power corporation to build nuclear power plants. I wish they would convert one of thermal plants to nuclear steam generation to demonstrate the idea. Both organisations are building 500MW plants using essentially the same generators. India’s National Thermal Power Corporation are thinking of tying up with Nuclear power corporation to build nuclear power plants. I wish they would convert one of thermal plants to nuclear steam generation to demonstrate the idea. Both organisations are building 500MW plants using essentially the same generators.

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