Comments on: Hyperion Signs First Customer for Nuclear Pods

By: Q

Wed, 11 Aug 2010 17:58:30 +0000

Hyperion's HPM pod may not be science fiction but it is far from being a product that can be manufactured, let alone shipped and installed. Hyperion June 2013 date is overly agressive, given NRC has qualified it as a fast reactor. It will take several years for NRC to come up on the learning curve with fast reactors before it can stamp its seal of approval on HPM. What I saw on slide 17 of Hyperion HPM powerpoint presentation is a conceptual design, and to get to a real detailed power plant design in less than 3 years will be a feat of engineering and project management. And that is without asking how HPM nuclear fuel (now enriched to near 20%) will be manufactured and what are the issues with regulators there? Will Hyperion has sufficient financing to bring HPM to the market and get it approved by the NRC, I do not know. What happens with investors and Hyperion's business case if NRC date is 2018 (this is probably an agressive date even) and not 2013

By: 6 Nuclear Power Startups To Watch via Earth2Tech « Mash'd!

6 Nuclear Power Startups To Watch via Earth2Tech « Mash'd! — Wed, 17 Feb 2010 00:51:31 +0000

[...] years-long process of seeking approval from the NRC, but it already has a purported customer — Romanian investment company TES Group has said it wants to buy six modules when they’re [...]

By: 6 Nuclear Power Startups To Watch – GigaOM

6 Nuclear Power Startups To Watch – GigaOM — Tue, 16 Feb 2010 22:21:50 +0000

[...] years-long process of seeking approval from the NRC, but it already has a purported customer — Romanian investment company TES Group has said it wants to buy six modules when they’re [...]

By: 6 Nuclear Power Startups To Watch

6 Nuclear Power Startups To Watch — Tue, 16 Feb 2010 20:02:22 +0000

[...] years-long process of seeking approval from the NRC, but it already has a purported customer — Romanian investment company TES Group has said it wants to buy six modules when they’re [...]

By: GOLAM ARSHAD

GOLAM ARSHAD — Sun, 02 Aug 2009 15:36:36 +0000

Great! Good source of energy, clean and nonhazardous! IAEA oversight will be the key! Member Nations need to sign up for its usage and purchase.

By: Hyperion Has a $100M Valuation for Mini Nuclear Power

Hyperion Has a $100M Valuation for Mini Nuclear Power — Mon, 18 May 2009 19:44:06 +0000

[...] company signed up its first customer last August, Romania’s TES Group, which signed a letter of intent to buy six nuclear modules. [...]

By: slow pitch bats

slow pitch bats — Wed, 18 Mar 2009 00:18:10 +0000

I wanted to comment and thank the author, good stuff

By: val

val — Wed, 27 Aug 2008 06:19:04 +0000

^^^ and here go the nuclear haters again. For some reason some people don't seem to understand that electricity powering their homes has to come from somewhere. The current BANANA concept ( Build Absolutely Nothing Anywhere Near Anything) is plain stupid and is one of the major cost rising influences on nuclear as well as wind power.

The 'we'll destroy the environment for x years' rhetoric is bullsh*t - read the wikipedia entry on Chernobyl and see how lands deemes unsafe for 'the future 600 years' are being resettled by farmers 30 years later.

By: Ronald Wagner

Ronald Wagner — Mon, 25 Aug 2008 11:25:31 +0000

Great way to destroy the environment for thousands of years. Just distribute nuclear waste all over.

Also a great idea that could be very profitable. Just sell it to terrorists, with some extra fuel. They can then pulverize it and scatter it from the top of tall buildings.

By: Hyperion Power Generation Announces First Customer “Letter of Intent” : CleanTechnica

Thu, 14 Aug 2008 08:48:59 +0000

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