![]() Time to market among competing MSR designs is a key factor in choosing the design according to Imardjoko. We are aiming for at least a 20% share of the energy mix by 2050, otherwise we are not addressing the climate change correctly,” Imardjoko said. “We are not planning to just to build one or two reactors. Indonesia is aiming for thorium energy to become a significant part of the country’s energy mix, thus contributing its share in the efforts against climate change. See the Thorcon design page for technical details. The MW Molten Salt Reactor will use Sodium Beryllium Fluoride salt dissolving low-enriched uranium and thorium fuel. Its fuel is liquid which makes it easy to manufacture and the simplicity of the design makes it very economical to build and to operate – at least on paper the economics could compete with coal,” Imardjoko said in a Thorcon press release. “The MSR has a simple design, which I think is the simplest design among all the Gen IV reactors. The HTGR is a complex design and Imardjoko feels the TRISO fuel is too complex for Indonesian firms to manufacture which means it would have to import it. The choice, according to Imardjoko, is either a high temperature gas cooled (HTGR) type reactor with a TRISO Fuel or a molten salt reactor (MSR). It has to be modular, and compete with coal in term of its economics.” “We know that we have to go with a generation IV design which has a passive safety system build into the design. He cited passive safety, modularity and cost compared to coal. There are three features Imardjoko highlights as to why Indonesia chose the molten salt reactor among the different thorium reactor types. The estimates do not address whether the reserves are economically recoverable. The country’s National Nuclear Energy Agency estimates that Indonesia has 70,000 tonnes Uranium reserves and 170,000 tonnes Thorium reserves. “Indonesia has an abundance of monazite which could last for the next 1000 years, securing Indonesia’s energy supply if the thorium is used as a nuclear fuel”, says Yudiutomo Imardjoko, CEO of the Indonesian Nuclear Company (INUKI). Indonesia is the world’s leading producer of tin, and part of the material recovered from tin mining is monazite which contains thorium. Importantly, PLN will buy the power generated by the reactor. PLN will provide its expertise regarding siting the plant and connecting with the grid.Pertamina will provide its expertise in moving large scale power projects from cradle to maturity and help navigate the governmental bureaucracy.INUKI with its license to import nuclear fuel will provide the thorium and uranium as required to fuel the reactor.The first plant is scheduled to be commissioned in 2021. Together these three companies have formed the Indonesia Thorium Consortium whose purpose is to develop and deploy commercially thorium molten salt reactors based on the ThorCon design. PT Pertamina is the state oil and gas giant which is now looking at nuclear and other forms of energy.PT PLN is the state-owned power generation company.PT Industry Nuklir Indonesia (INUKI) is the state-owned nuclear fuel processing company.The MOU was signed in Washington DC between ThorCon and three Indonesian companies in late October on the occasion of Indonesia President Joko Widodo’s visit to the US which included a meeting with US President Barak Obama. The three firms are President Barak Obama at the White House 10/25/15 Indonesian President Joko Widodo meets U.S.
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