Abstract: Concentrated solar plants have been designed to store thermal energy so as to produce power after sundown, but heat storage should also be of interest to operators of nuclear power plants. Adding heat storage to light-water ...

Abstract: The fluoridesaltcooled hightemperature reactor (FHR) is a new reactor concept, which combines lowpressure liquid salt coolant and hightemperature tristructural isotropic (TRISO) particle fuel. The refractory TRISO particle ...

Abstract: A new design paradigm for nuclear power plants is needed to complement the increasing adoption of low marginal cost variable renewable energy resources. The situation is reflected in the wholesale electricity price–duration ...

Abstract: We describe a roadmap using three sets of technologies to enable base-load nuclear reactors to replace all fossil fuels in a low-carbon world. The technologies integrate nuclear, wind, solar, hydroelectricity and biomass ...

Abstract: The intermittency of renewable power generation systems on the low carbon electric grid can be alleviated by using nuclear systems as quasi-storage systems. Nuclear air-Brayton systems can produce and store hydrogen when ...