A Breeder in the Desert (EBR-2 story)
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- čas přidán 21. 10. 2022
- Produced by AEC's Argonne National Laboratory. Argonne's Experimental Breeder Reactor No. 2 at the National Reactor Testing Station in Idaho is shown in detail, and many of the features and operating characteristics of a large-scale fast-breeder reactor are described. The EBR-II Fuel Cycle Facility, the first nuclear fuel reprocessing plant completely integrated with a reactor, is shown in operation. Video is B&W, produced in 1965.
(This is a higher-res version of ANL's upload of this video, sourced from Indiana University archives). - Věda a technologie
It always amazes me to see what these smart fellows made without modern PCs, CAD etc. Such a succesful experimental device and program. Hope the results "we" learned will be applied as soon as possible (even if "late" already).
I have seen dozens of films from this era, but not this gem. Thank you Dr Touran.
Lovely video, thank you.
awesome!!
EBR II was a 100 years ahead of it’s time! Y’all can thank then Sen John Kerry and the Clinton Administration on Terminating this Program. Love seeing these old films with the possibility of “what-if” running in my head!
Affirmative!
Great film.
I would have liked to have seen comment on features particular to fast reactors, which are not seen in the LWRs of the nation. Power control mechanisms of a fast reactor. Sodium handling. LOCA accidents. Operating temperature. Pu share in spent fuel.
EBR1
Excellent information. For the algorithm!
"10 railway tank cars of sodium" ...... dayum ...... I've seen what happens when you toss a little piece of sodium in water
В Японии уже были пожары натриевого реактора из-за утечки.
Been there.
“Nuclear power has already become competitive in sone parts of the country. And, by the year 2000 more than half of … electric power … nuclear…”
Oh well. The US nuclear industry managed 20%. Imagine the reaction by coal and gas and oil and union executives to hearing this completely plausible forecast in 1962.
Who do you think has been bankrolling the antinuclear movement in this country?
Volume level low for anyone else?
Nope
LOL , by the year 2000 about half of the power generated will be by juclear reactors. Not even close. 20%.
Now we can make more bombs😂
Nah, bombs are made is specialized weapons material production reactors, which are often natural uranium fueled with graphite moderator. That's better at getting the precise isotopic mixtures desired. Breeders are generally considered for long-term sustainable commercial power but not weapons.
and all stopped by Bill Clinton / John Kerry
The latter being "climate envoy" today, oddly enough.
All stopped by nuclear failures and cost overruns, enormous safety risks, and escalating technical and waste issues. Politicians recognized the reality that nuclear failed. The industry still doesn’t, ostrich’s that they are.
Educate yourself, Kase
Nice try but it didn’t pan out as expected. Uranium supplies increase and breeders didn’t work as well as expected. Many billions of dollars down the drain.
The main reason the breeder reactors were discontinued was that we didn't want that much additional plutonium available. Fast reactors use, and make, weapons grade radioactives, which is why the breeder program was shut down by presidential order.
You can say that when we've figured out what to do with all of the nuclear waste which has been piling up outside of every reactor for the past 50 years. The current plan is to just let it sit there forever. The technologies developed here were fundamental to the design of closed-loop reactors which remove the high-level waste in real-time.
Dr Alvin Radkowsky . Dr Alvin Weinberg.
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