Gen4 Energy

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Hyperion Power Generation, Inc.
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Gen4 Energy, Inc (formerly Hyperion Power Generation, Inc.

production of electricity, and other purposes, including desalination
.

The company went out of business on the 1st of April 2018,[2] after losing out on a second round of grants from the Department of Energy in January 2016.[3]

Early designs

Hyperion announced in November 2009 that, despite their continued intentions to pursue the self-moderated

fast reactor would speed the time to commercialization over the uranium hydride, self-moderating design that had previously been publicly discussed.[4]

USNRC concept illustration of a Hyperion Power Module plant.[5]

According to Hyperion, the

Alfa class submarine – well known in the West for its high speed operation – was driven by such a lead-bismuth reactor which is known to have worked very effectively.[6]

The Hyperion module has sufficient fuel for 3,650 full power days at 70 MWth, is capable of load following, and is meant to be built in pairs; one module can be at power, while another can be under installation or uninstallation at the same time.[6]

Hyperion planned to use natural circulation of the lead-bismuth coolant through the reactor module as a means of primary cooling. Coolant temperatures within the primary loop should be approximately 500 °C (932 °F). Powered intermediate

desalinization
, process heat, and district heating and cooling.

The

gamma radiation, but transparent to neutron flux; it melts at a low temperature, but does not boil until an extremely high temperature is reached; it does not greatly expand or contract when exposed to heat or cold; it has a high heat capacity; it will naturally circulate through the reactor core without pumps being required – whether during normal operation or as a means of residual decay heat removal; and it will solidify once decay heat from a used reactor has dropped to a low level.[6]

Competing designs

See

List of small nuclear reactor designs

References

  1. ^ Hyperion Power Generation Inc. Announces Change of Company Name to Gen4 Energy, Inc., 13 March 2012, BusinessWire
  2. ^ "Gen4 Energy Company Profile: Valuation & Investors | PitchBook".
  3. ^ Llewellyn King. "Beware of the Loving Embrace of the Government".
  4. ^ Hyperion launches U2N3-fuelled, Pb-Bi-cooled fast reactor Archived 2009-11-26 at the Wayback Machine, 20 November 2009, Nuclear Engineering International
  5. ^ Hyperion Power Module (HPM), Nuclear Regulatory Commission filing February 10, 2010, accessed 2010-03-10.
  6. ^ a b c d Adams, Rod; Rudin, Forrest; Trapp, TJ (2010-01-21). "The Atomic Show #148: Hyperion Power Module Update (Audio Interview)". The Atomic Show. Adams Atomic Engines, Inc./The Podcast Network. Archived from the original on 2010-10-15. Retrieved 2010-01-24.
  7. ^ Campagna, Mark S. (2009-11-18). "Presentation (PDF format)". American Nuclear Society Meeting 2009. Denver, Colorado, USA: Hyperion Power Generation. pp. 6, 8.
  8. OSTI 4417437
    . TID-26241.

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