Mini reactors: advanced nuclear technology

At the beginning of the seventies, the “fundamentals of the sustainability of the energy system” were exposed in the “Structure of the Economy” de ciencias económicas subjects. El estupendo de Economic structure del professor It's donetrata este asunto extensamente y con rigor cientifico.

A partir de la 1973 oil crisis con motivo de la guerra del Yon Kippurlos países productionores decided not to give oil to those who support Israel. Ello impulsó ir primer cambio hacia otras nuevas tecnologías de “ahorro energético” y más limpias. Este escrito, con motivo del día de la energyvoy a exponer lo que representan las nuevas “nuclear technologies” You can have renewable energy.

The current government in Spain Partido Socialista Despite the influence of partners, he decided to ignore the decision European Union en impulsar el studio y la construcción de “mini reactors“. La OECD y Mario Draghi, in the 2024 report, sostenen lo siguiente: “nuclear energy is an opportunity that complements the medium and large renewable energy field”. Parece ser que la Transición Ecológica exministra propuesta el pasado mes de noviembre como Vicepresidente en la “European Commission“, Teresa Ribera, the European Union has nothing to do with nuclear energy, so it builds mini-reactors in consideration.

Los SMS – del inglés, “Small modular reactors“, are the targets set to mark the future of the nuclear sector. SMR – mini reactors – para hacer frente a China and Russia preferably China plans to build 150 thousand reactors in the next few years to compete with them United States of America Contact y autobastecimiento energético. Europe's goal is to accelerate the development of this technology in the Eurozone, to declare nuclear energy “clean energy”.Alliance Industrial Europe“It's the construction and impulse of the reactors.

Japanthrough the company Mitsubishidevelops mini-portable nuclear reactors on a truck platform with capacity 500 kilowatts of energy. The advantages of these reactors are many and varied. The modular mini-reactor is a compact unit and safer than the second-generation large reactors that have been upgraded in recent years and are currently operating in Europe and the United States. Larger than the reactors manufactured by Mitsubishi, these reactors have a capacity of up to 300 Megawatts; You can use the operating system in España. However, with modules, you build structures and vehicles; El costo es una quinta parte de lo que cuesta una center clasica. Óscar Cabellos, catedrático de energía nuclear, indicates that in addition to the very low cost, the construction time is reduced to three to five years compared to more than ten for large reactors; “SMR” is a very incendiary or common very menos residue, which is the Center's; low temperature of industrial processes, hydrogen, ammonia or aerosols; tampoco emiten CO2 and aportan flexibility in a system of energy. Pongamos un ejemplo: a country that produces 60 or 70% renewable energy. Advantage of nuclear energy; The energy future of Europe and industrialized countries must be a mix of clean energies that include these mini reactors.

In recent years, Germany has increased its CO2 emissionssobre todo desde el cierre de las plantas nucleares; últimamente ha tenido que centere ciclo combinado de gas y de vapor, que pesar de mitir más bajas missiones que las conventionales, son contaminantes. It is a pity that it is a pity, que en nuestro país, Nuclear power is about to disappear completely by 2035Do not take positive political action to clean energy in the EU. The pressures of environmental organizations and left-wing parties in our country make the implementation and development of this nuclear technology difficult for now.

More than twenty countries in the previous period Cumbre de la Cop -28 sobre el clima, they have committed to triple their capacity in this technology by 2050 in support of renewable sources and contribute to the decarbonisation of the economy. The last one Cumbre del Cop -29 About the climate celebrated in Baku, (Azerbaijan) that ended on the 22nd of this month of November, no one has said the opposite in this regard.

According to him, the EU has given the green light for the production of these small reactors on European soil. Empero, Espana no ha participated in this majority decision. However, the problem of residue storage in these reactors is largely solved by considering. se pueden reciclar en más del 90 and 95%the authorized funcionar a estas pequeñas centeres mucho más más effectivelymente y con una seguridad.

Las empresas españolas que deseen participator en la tarta, lo han de hacer fuera de nuestro país; de forma que España exports to other countries that benefit from these new avant-garde technologies. Segun confirmed Vicente Ruiz, master professor of new project management at OBS business Scholl. The University of Seville has been studying the design of a small modular reactor to connect to the grid for ten years. According to the publication, Endesa Acciona and twenty other vanguard companies have expressed their interest in participating in the “Energy Industry Alliance” by SMR.Nuclear European Union“.

Spain provides great opportunities for the recovery of Europeans, high-tech capabilities. Every day we spend doing nothing is the best advertisement for carrera technology. Do your best for it.

Agustin Hidalgo. Economist.

References: Investigación y Ciencia.