Comments on: Sparsely Populated Nunavut Considers Micro-Nuclear to Cut Fossil Energy Costs

By: Christopher Miles

Christopher Miles — Mon, 14 May 2012 16:40:00 +0000

Seems like the town/island wanted something to negotiate with- perhaps the Hydro people were pricing construction as if they were the only game in town.

Also it’s some interesting publicity for the island- I mean, had any of us heard of Nunavut before?

It’s more than likely that they diversify their mix a bit by adding some easy renewables in the short term, then wait for the Hydro people to come in with a lower bid.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Wed, 27 Apr 2011 06:09:00 +0000

BTW, if the answer to ‘who makes’ is Hyperon they recently announced that the price of the reactor they dream of making will be something like $50 million per reactor. They doubled their price earlier this year.

25 x $50 million = a hell of a lot more than $200 to $500 million for a hydro plant.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Wed, 27 Apr 2011 05:47:00 +0000

Who makes a 10MW reactor?

You’re going to spread 25 of these things around an area and get the technical support staff from where? Whitlock is blowing smoke up people’s nether regions. You do not grab someone off a fishing boat and set them to work running a nuclear reactor.

These folks need to be exploring geothermal. They could provide a great lab for dry rock geothermal if they can’t find underground steam.

For a large part of the year they could cycle the post-turbine water through their building heating systems and greatly cut down on the need to import heating oil.

The nuclear industry is just plain desperate. They’re grabbing for any tiny straw they can find. Watch their ideas get more and more absurd as they continue their death throes.