Heat Storage Coupled to Generation IV Reactors for Variable Electricity from Base-load Reactors: Workshop Proceedings. Changing markets, technology, nuclear-renewables integration and synergisms with solar thermal power systems

Technical Report · Sun Sep 01 00:00:00 EDT 2019

DOI:https://doi.org/10.2172/1575201· OSTI ID:1575201

Forsberg, Charles W. ^[1]; Sabharwall, Piyush  ^[2]; Gougar, Hans D. ^[2]

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1. Massachusetts Inst. of Technology (MIT), Cambridge, MA (United States)
2. Idaho National Lab. (INL), Idaho Falls, ID (United States)

Electricity markets are changing because of (1) the addition of wind and solar that creates volatile electricity prices including times of zero-priced electricity and (2) the goal of a low-carbon world that requires replacing fossil fuels that provide (a) energy, (b) stored energy, and (c) dispatchable energy. Wind and solar provide energy but not the other two other energy functions that are provided fossil fuels. Nuclear energy with heat storage can provide all three functions and thus replace fossil fuels.

• Research Organization: Idaho National Lab. (INL), Idaho Falls, ID (United States); Massachusetts Inst. of Technology (MIT), Cambridge, MA (United States); Exelon, Chicago, IL (United States)
• Sponsoring Organization: USDOE Office of Nuclear Energy (NE)
• DOE Contract Number: AC07-05ID14517
• OSTI ID: 1575201
• Report Number(s): INL/EXT-19-54909-Rev000; TRN: US2100379
• Resource Relation: Conference: Heat Storage Coupled to Generation IV Reactors for Variable Electricity from Base-load Reactors: Changing Markets, Technology, Nuclear-Renewables Integration and Synergisms with Solar Thermal Power Systems, Idaho Falls, ID (United States), 23-24 Jul 2019
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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