https://www.newcivilengineer.com/latest/long-term-vision-and-collaboration-will-be-critical-to-the-future-of-nuclear-infrastructure-14-08-2023/ Civil engineering and construction news and jobs from New Civil Engineer Tue, 29 Aug 2023 13:46:30 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.0 https://www.newcivilengineer.com/wp-content/themes/mbm-mops-2017/images/logo.gif https://www.newcivilengineer.com 125 75 Civil engineering and construction news and jobs from New Civil Engineer https://www.newcivilengineer.com/latest/long-term-vision-and-collaboration-will-be-critical-to-the-future-of-nuclear-infrastructure-14-08-2023/#comment-4384 Tue, 29 Aug 2023 13:46:30 +0000 https://www.newcivilengineer.com/?p=265788#comment-4384 Reintroducing nuclear into the UK is well past time. We used to have expertise in the field but then threw it away.
Most importantly, though, what form of nuclear power are we looking at ? Whenever I have seen a politician, or civil servant, talking about nuclear, they are always talking about the same materials that could be used to make nuclear weapons. The US developed a working test bed for molten salt thorium power in the 70’s but dropped it once they realised they could not make bombs – then they classified it of course. It can be made totally failsafe. The UK test bed apparently has an ice plug, being kept frozen by electricity, and when they go home for the weekend they just turn off the power and the plug eventually melts, dropping the molten salt into safe dispersed storage pans.
It would be nice if someone more knowledgeable than me wrote an article about this in the NCE and started a campaign for safe nuclear.

]]> https://www.newcivilengineer.com/latest/long-term-vision-and-collaboration-will-be-critical-to-the-future-of-nuclear-infrastructure-14-08-2023/#comment-4363 Mon, 14 Aug 2023 07:11:24 +0000 https://www.newcivilengineer.com/?p=265788#comment-4363 Blah, blah. 35 years too late.

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