Comments on: NUCLEAR POWER: “Leapfrog” nuclear power technology developed by US government laboratory http://conservationreport.com/2008/11/09/nuclear-power-leapfrog-nuclear-power-technology-developed-by-us-government-laboratory/ Tracking news regarding conservation, the environment, energy, politics, and technology Fri, 10 Feb 2012 19:31:42 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: NUCLEARIZATION OF ENERGY SOURCES: Rebirth of nuclear energy? « The Conservation Report http://conservationreport.com/2008/11/09/nuclear-power-leapfrog-nuclear-power-technology-developed-by-us-government-laboratory/#comment-3002 Mon, 23 Feb 2009 02:53:27 +0000 http://conservationreport.wordpress.com/?p=3810#comment-3002 [...] NUCLEAR POWER: “Leapfrog” nuclear power technology developed by US government laboratory [...]

]]> By: John http://conservationreport.com/2008/11/09/nuclear-power-leapfrog-nuclear-power-technology-developed-by-us-government-laboratory/#comment-1468 Mon, 17 Nov 2008 15:46:21 +0000 http://conservationreport.wordpress.com/?p=3810#comment-1468 The 50 year old design is the research reactor Slowpoke and it’s descendents Slowpoke II, Slowpoke III and Maple designed by the Canadians back in 1967. The Slowpoke is still the only design licensed for unattended operation. Not many was sold because the Chinese visited one and then produced a knock off which they marketed vigorously.

It would be nice to give credit to where credit is due and just commission the mini-reactors from Canada’s AECL. Of course morality over intellectual properties doesn’t seem to apply when stealing other people’s I.P.

Canadian nuclear technology is purely for civilian use. Their Candu reactor (the big heavy water, high power, high pressure power plant reactor) can run on natural uranium such that the spent fuel do not need any special treatment as they would be less radioactive than natural uranium. The Candu can also run on other reactor’s spent fuel rods.

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