Comments on: Thursday, January 18 http://www.garth.ca/weblog/2007/01/18/thursday-january-18/ Current political events, business, real estate, financial and economic news, trends and, above all, the Future. Fri, 10 Apr 2009 15:53:36 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 By: Kevin M http://www.garth.ca/weblog/2007/01/18/thursday-january-18/comment-page-1/#comment-52912 Kevin M Fri, 19 Jan 2007 02:32:37 +0000 http://www.garth.ca/weblog/2007/01/18/thursday-january-18/#comment-52912 Neville, the wikipedia entry has some good information about who is using PBMRs <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pebble_bed_modular_reactor" rel="nofollow">Here</a> Neville, the wikipedia entry has some good information about who is using PBMRs

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]]> By: Irene http://www.garth.ca/weblog/2007/01/18/thursday-january-18/comment-page-1/#comment-52901 Irene Fri, 19 Jan 2007 00:57:18 +0000 http://www.garth.ca/weblog/2007/01/18/thursday-january-18/#comment-52901 Achnad, I think you owe Neville an apology. He's done his homework. Apparently you haven't. Enough said Achnad, I think you owe Neville an apology. He’s done his homework. Apparently you haven’t. Enough said

]]> By: Neville http://www.garth.ca/weblog/2007/01/18/thursday-january-18/comment-page-1/#comment-52898 Neville Fri, 19 Jan 2007 00:51:36 +0000 http://www.garth.ca/weblog/2007/01/18/thursday-january-18/#comment-52898 Kevin I did not know much about the pebble bed reactor design until now. For anybody that is interested in learning more about this type of reactor please see the following link http://thefraserdomain.typepad.com/energy/2005/10/abouat_pebble_b.html#more It obvious that CANDU does not use this type of technology. Only the South Africans and the Chinese have the technology. If any of the oil sands companies decide to import this technology, this will put them offside with the Minister of Natural Resources and his vision as Canada as Energy Superpower. I agree that pebble bed nuclear reactor technology looks promising but under the current political structure we will not see it being used in the Canadian oil sands. We are kind of stuck with CANDU. Maybe they should change their name to CANDU NOT Kevin

I did not know much about the pebble bed reactor design until now.

For anybody that is interested in learning more about this type of reactor please see the following link

http://thefraserdomain.typepad.com/energy/2005/10/abouat_pebble_b.html#more

It obvious that CANDU does not use this type of technology. Only the South Africans and the Chinese have the technology. If any of the oil sands companies decide to import this technology, this will put them offside with the Minister of Natural Resources and his vision as Canada as Energy Superpower.

I agree that pebble bed nuclear reactor technology looks promising but under the current political structure we will not see it being used in the Canadian oil sands.

We are kind of stuck with CANDU. Maybe they should change their name to CANDU NOT

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