Samsung Heavy Industries, Seaborg sign partnership to develop Floating Nuclear Power Plant

[Sherman A1]

As the world increasingly searches for a means to reduced carbon footprint, compact floating nuclear power plants are emerging as a serios contender. To this end, Samsung Heavy Industries (SHI) and Seaborg signed a partnership agreement to develop floating nuclear power plants based on Seaborg's Compact Molten Salt Reactor (CMSR). The agreement includes development of hydrogen production plants and ammonia plants, able to manufactured in serial production for deployment globally.

"CMSR is a carbon-free energy source that can efficiently respond to climate change issues and is a next-generation technology that meets the vision of Samsung Heavy Industries," said Jintaek Jung, president of Samsung Heavy Industries. "In addition, when an abnormal signal occurs inside the reactor, the liquid nuclear fuel, molten salt, is solidified to prevent serious accidents at the source, and provides high safety and high efficiency power and hydrogen production at the same time. Through this agreement, we plan to pioneer the CMSR-based floating nuclear power plant market as part of strengthening its future new business opportunity"

"We are honored and proud to have formed this partnership with Samsung Heavy Industries, one of the world's largest and most experienced shipyards. It is another step forward in our quest to introduce a new generation of nuclear reactors that are clean and safe and can be built using industrial technology with all the benefits of scalability, speed, and lower costs," saidTroels Schönfeldt, CEO and co-founder of Seaborg.

The partnership agreement was signed at an online event by Mr.Jintaek Jung, President and CEO of SHI, and Mr. Troels Schönfeldt, co-founder and CEO of Seaborg. The aim of the strategic partnership is to manufacture and sell turn-key power plants, ready to be moored at industrial harbors and connected to the electric grid onshore.

https://www.marinelink.com/news/samsung-heavy-industries-seaborg-sign-495667

[doc03]

1. My first thought is "Chernobyl". I may not understand this concept but a floating nuclear

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power plant doesn't sound that safe to me.

[in2herbs]

2. This has to be a cover for the development of something else. The seas are unstable and

climate change making them more so. Who in their right mind would even think a nuclear plant on such an unstable surface would be a good idea?

[TuskMoar]

4. Nuclear Subs? Aircraft Carriers?

We already power these floating cities using nuclear power and have been doing so for decades. Moreover, the new advancements in nuclear power generation are much safer than those built in the 20th century. It is long past time to add nuclear power to the mix of green power sources.

[in2herbs]

5. Power a nuclear sub is not the nuclear energy required to be an energy source for cities, etc. I

don't disagree -- the development of nuclear power has advanced but nuclear waste is not being addressed. Barrels of nuclear waste that were buried at the Hanford plant more than 50 years ago are leaking radiation. The proponents of nuclear energy said that the concrete barrels the nuclear waste would be encased in would be safe for more than 50 years and by that time a solution to the radioactive waste problem would have been fixed. It has not. I will be against nuclear energy until its nuclear waste is safe. Until then it cannot be called green energy.

[TuskMoar]

7. The Key to Your Post was 50 Years Ago

The waste from the modern nuclear energy generation is lower in both volume and radioactivity and much easier to dispose of. Moreover, some of the new technologies have proposed to use the old nuclear waste to fuel some of the new generation reactors. The mistakes of that past keep limiting our ability to move forward into the future. My own "conspiracy theory" is that some of the carbon based energy interests have directed and magnified this fear mongering of nuclear to keep it off the grid. In fact, I am not sure it is even a conspiracy theory. It is likely not a secret at all.

[Celerity]

3. great news, nuclear is major part of the way forward as renewables simply don't have enough EROI atm

The energy landscape of tomorrow

The Seaborg Compact Molten Salt Reactor will complement other sustainable energy sources

https://www.seaborg.com/the-reactor

[hunter]

6. China will be the first nation to commercialize molten salt reactors.

They have a prototype built and plan to build larger commercial versions by 2030.

This type of reactor was first built in the 1960's in the U.S.A. and ran from 1965 to 1969.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Molten-Salt_Reactor_Experiment

The Chinese reactors draw heavily from this experience.

Floating nuclear power plants might be very useful in a world with rapidly rising sea levels.

Most people don't yet comprehend that we humans have already made a huge mess of things and that rapidly rising sea levels are inevitable.

Millions of people around the world will have to be relocated. China won't have any trouble doing that, their authoritarian government can just tell people where to move and they move. It's going to be chaos in the U.S.A.. Our own climate change refugees won't be welcomed with open arms to regions that are still habitable.

During the Dust Bowl of the 1930's California communities sent police and other bullies to its borders to impede displaced single men, poorly educated farmers and their families, and people who were not white from entering the state.

"Okie" was not a term of endearment anywhere in the U.S.A..

[Hellbound Hellhound]

8. Nuclear is the only main road towards sustainable energy in the short to mid term. n/t