You’ve Heard of Offshore Wind; Now, Offshore Nuclear Is a Thing
If it goes bad, you can tow it to a deep subduction zone and sink it, and we already have nuclear reactors afloat.
“By deploying advanced small reactors on floating power stations, we can provide clean local power to small grids powering communities with heating and cooling, providing reliable lighting, and enabling clean charging of electric vehicles. Floating power also means immunity from earthquakes, tsunamis, and volcanoes, which may otherwise destroy conventional power sources on land,” the company has said.
The NEUP funding “will allow detailed collaborative research into the economic and environmental benefits of floating advanced nuclear power generation and take a granular look at all aspects of building, operating, maintaining, and decommissioning such facilities,” CORE POWER said in a statement.
The funding for CORE POWER’s research is at least partly tied to a hydrogen hub initiative the DOE is facilitating. On June 6, the DOE released a Notice of Intent to fund the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law’s $8 billion program to develop regional clean hydrogen hubs across America. It said “H2Hubs will create networks of hydrogen producers, consumers, and local connective infrastructure to accelerate the use of hydrogen as a clean energy carrier.”
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