Re:Economic growth no longer requires rising emissions
by Schroedingersat on Friday November 11, 2022 @09:56AM
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Lay it out for me then.
There are roughly 40,000t of accessible fissile material (U235 and Pu239) on earth.
You need about 3.5t to run a GW of PWR for 6 years. This generates up to half a tonne of Pu239.
Primary energy is about 17TW. You need about 12TWe to meet this. We'll assume 5TW of heat needs can be met with a geographically isolated low head steam generator.
Assume your reactors are free and all mining capacity grows at 100% p.a. from the current ~200t of U235 that isn't in inaccessible tails per year and reactors are constructed in record times of 5 years.
Make it make sense. Provide a net zero solution for 2050.
There are roughly 40,000t of accessible fissile material (U235 and Pu239) on earth.
You need about 3.5t to run a GW of PWR for 6 years. This generates up to half a tonne of Pu239.
Primary energy is about 17TW. You need about 12TWe to meet this. We'll assume 5TW of heat needs can be met with a geographically isolated low head steam generator.
Assume your reactors are free and all mining capacity grows at 100% p.a. from the current ~200t of U235 that isn't in inaccessible tails per year and reactors are constructed in record times of 5 years.
Make it make sense. Provide a net zero solution for 2050.