Nuclear power comes by ship: Samsung and Seaborg develop reactor ships to bring nuclear power everywhere
One of the problems of nuclear energy is the "NIMBY" "Not in my back yard", that is the fact that nobody wants a nuclear power plant near their home or, in any case, to convince local communities to accept a bulky and bad image plant it is often difficult.
The solution? Putting plants into the sea, even offshore: South Korea's Samsung Heavy Industries (SHI) and Denmark's Seaborg have signed a collaboration agreement for the development of floating nuclear power plants based on Seaborg's compact molten salt reactor (CMSR) technology . The agreement includes the development of hydrogen and ammonia production facilities.
The objective of the strategic partnership is to produce and sell “turnkey” power plants, ready to be moored in industrial ports and connected to the shore power grid. An optional solution is to combine the floating nuclear power plant with a hydrogen or ammonia production plant, which uses CO2-free fission energy as an energy source. Hydrogen and ammonia can therefore be used as fuel for ship traffic.
The floating nuclear power plant design is modular and can provide up to 800 MW of electricity for a duration of 24 years.
“ CMSR is a carbon-free energy source capable of responding effectively to the problems of climate change and is a next-generation technology that fulfills the vision of Samsung Heavy Industries. In addition, when an abnormal signal occurs inside the reactor, the liquid nuclear fuel, the molten salt, is solidified to avoid serious accidents at the source, and ensures high safety and high efficiency in the production of energy and hydrogen at the same time , ”said Jintaek Jeong, president of Samsung Heavy, one of the world's largest shipbuilders.
And if the ship were moored to a fixed access point offshore, the “NIMBY” effect would be completely avoided, so this solution appears particularly interesting. Since last year, Samsung Heavy Industries has been heavily involved in the nuclear sector, also starting the design of atomic energy transport ships, this time in collaboration with the Korea Atomic Energy Research Institute (KAERI), to overcome the taxation of emissions. of carbon that the EU wants to impose on transport ships. Eventually we will have less carbon, but a lot of atomic reactors.
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