Energy Review

Nuclear

• NRC lowers nuclear plant meltdown fatality estimate

• Reactors– Bellefonte 1 reactor to be completed– APR1400 reactor construction• Indian uranium

– Changes made to Terrapower traveling wave reactor to be more buildable

Traveling Wave Reactor

• New design generates heat attop instead centrally– Easier to use heat– Somewhat more radiation wear

on containment system– Needs 3 to 4 times more

resilient material– Seeks permission and funding

to build

Fatalities if Core Meltdown

• Main worry is release of Cesium 137– Previous estimate 60% cesium release– New estimate: <= 2%

• Result based on 20 years of computer modelling, engineering analysis and field data

• Probability of death within 10 mile radius– Near 0.0– Odds of 0.0002 of developing latent cancer

• This is without considering new mitigation methods

Fusion News

• Star Scientific: Muon catalyzed fusion• Fusion project updates– Helion Energy– General Fusion– Tri-Alpha Energy

• Japanese Muon and Muon fusion research..

Transportation

• Increasing fuel efficiency using smartphones– Fuel savings of 20% in city driving

• New electric vehicle charging proposal– Endless power to electric vehicles through road RF

energy• Wheel motors and kits to turn conventional

vehicles to hybrids– Operational direct drive solution

Solar Power on Demand

Fast charging energy storage device

Hydrocarbons

• Oil production hasn’t peaked yet– Oil production rose to 88.7 mbd last month

• Israel has Saudi Arabia level reserves?– 250 billion barrels of oil

• Most recent world oil supply report