Plan to Restore American Leadership in Nuclear Energy (Richard McPherson) USofA

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Americas Path and Plan Forward to Restore Leadership Position in Nuclear Energy©

By Richard McPherson 2019

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Current Players in the International Nuclear Power Market?

China and Russia!

Of the 233 listed countries or geopolitical entities listed by the United Nations, China has been working to colonize forty-six of them, offering nuclear energy in cooperation with Russia. Those forty-six countries represent over 50% of the worlds land mass and over 42% of the world population.

In my opinion, China does not have the funds to meet its reported obligations for nuclear energy in all of those countries. We must not forget China and Russia are cooperating against the United States.

Russia has agreements or memorandum of understanding with forty-four countries to provide nuclear power plants. Those forty-four countries represent over 38% of the worlds land mass and over 64% of the world population.

Plans laid out in the Chinese government’s Made in China 2025 Plan (MIC 2025), outlines Beijing’s plans to become a global leader in key manufacturing areas. Many of the strategic goals outlined in the plan are likely predicated on specific intelligence collection requirements, are a primary basis for China-based cyber operations. Although Beijing toned down its rhetoric later in 2018 and reduced mention of the MIC 2025 in state media, these requirements signal Chinese lessening reliance on critical foreign components in technology, energy, and healthcare. It is highly unlikely they will be abandoned. Not only does Beijing see decreasing dependence on foreign goods as paramount, but the continuation of its “Belt and Road Initiative” (BRI) seeks to make much of the world’s trade routes and infrastructure dependent on Beijing. The first SMR in the US is not planned for operation until 2026 – one-year after MIC 2025. Beijing has not missed the slow pace of the NRC. NOTE The reason I put in the amount of land mass is because China and Russia have targeted countries with natural resources they want to control. With access given to the DOE files on molten salt reactors (MSRs) during the Obama administration, they have reportedly embarked on a USD $3 billion MSR program in the GOBI desert.

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Summing up the situation!

Using offers to Build, Own, and Operate nuclear power plants, Russia and China are advancing toward “running the table” in their strategy to penetrate – and ultimately dominate – the politics and economics of key U.S. allies who control critical resources and geostrategic terrain. Decreasing reliance on foreign energy technology leads one to believe they have obtained all they need from other countries.

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By itself, the United States is not currently competitive in this race. Consider the following: •

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China has 44 nuclear power reactors in operation at home and 15 under construction; the government's plan under the “Belt and Road Initiative” calls for building 30 more plants in key countries and regions in the next 20 years.

Russia has 35 nuclear power reactors in operation at home and plans to build approximately 40 more overseas in the next ten years.

The United States has neither plans nor the capability by itself to be competitive in this market – a market worth more than $1 trillion in new construction over the next 30 years.

China and Russia want to dominate the world – not feed it, supply safe water and jobs. The USD $1 trillion represents over 15 million higher paying better educated Americans along with millions more in other countries employed directly or indirectly in commercial nuclear industry related jobs.

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United States Nuclear Regulatory Commission

The path is clear. It starts with re-creating the United States (US) Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) into a responsive organization to America’s safe and resilient nuclear energy needs for economic energy and national security. The NRC organization as structured is an impediment to “Atomic Energy” as a peaceful way to achieve security and prosperity as President Dwight D. Eisenhower spoke of in his December 1953 speech “Atoms for Peace” at the United Nations. Just 20years later in 1974 increasing anti-American minority interest groups pressure caused a change in public policy by some in Congress to create the NRC. It was the beginning of a regulatory government entity hampering the advancement of US commercial nuclear energy in favor of the Peoples Republic of China (PRC) and the Soviet Union.

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Today the NRC with Union government employees where English is not their native language create Requests for Additional Information (RAIs) because they do not understand the written words that go along with the computer models they use in reviewing designs such as the NuScale design. Then more senior people in the NRC pass off the time it takes to do a review for certification as “incomplete work by submitters” or “the work submitted is not clear”, etc.

An example of well structed Technical and Safety Review Organization. On August 16, 1870, the US Naval Board of Inspection and Survey (INSURV) was established by Congress to ensure that ships of the United States Navy are properly equipped for prompt, reliable sustained mission readiness at sea.

During its 149-year history the Board refined its work to include 19 engineering disciplines held by experienced Naval Officers assigned to the Board. In 1983, under Vice Admiral John D. Bulkeley, INSURV President, I was one of 54 officers assigned to review the design and specifications created by Naval Sea Systems Command (NAVSEA) of the lead ship of the LHD 1 class, the USS Wasp (LHD 1) in a week. We found over 10,000 deviations from “General Specifications for Ships of the United States Navy” (GENSHIPS). We wrote a report and delivered it to NAVSEA along with debriefing Vice Admiral Earl B. Fowler, Jr., Commander, George Davis, Jr., Deputy Commander and around 70members of their NAVSEA staff in each of the 19 engineering disciplines in one-day. If the NRC was organized, staffed and managed properly they could properly evaluate a new design from a company submitting a Design Control Document (DCD) in days rather than years. An example of how out of touch the NRC and Congress is with the US commercial nuclear industry can be found in this one sentence by Stewart Magruder, NRC, Senior Project Manager, Division of Advanced Reactors to

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around 150 attendees at a recent Microreactor workshop at the INL “Congress says we must have that rule in place by 2027.” That is 8-years away. At the rate China and Russia have been moving, in 8years between them they will most likely dominate countries with the majority of the worlds reserves of natural resources. Congress and the administration must take charge to cause changes at the NRC to reflect the needs of the US. To help there are many experienced people that can help draft a structure to better manage the NRC to be responsive for the time in history we live.

Issues affecting NRC decision-making increase costs and create delays in progress of commercial nuclear energy use in the US requiring resolving, such as: 1. 1990 NRC Cancer Radiation Study update.

2. Linear no-threshold (LNT) dose– response model in risk assessment, significantly impacting environmental, occupational and medical exposure standards and practices.

3. Coordinating activities of Anti-nuclear groups or individuals abusing public hearings.

4. Common areas of National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) submissions increasing the time and cost of approvals before a project or technology can proceed.

An example of the NRC’s lack of proper organization and management is knowledge of the US Navy S3G natural circulation reactor starting in 1964 under the US Atomic Energy Commission (AEC) and continuing after the NRC was created until today – 55-years. Talking with former Navy nukes at the NRC not one was aware of any effort by senior management to bring those with the natural circulation S3G experience together as a team to learn from the 70 plus training sessions NuScale Power provided the NRC over the past 8-years.

US Navy nukes recruited right out of high school, colleges and universities sent to the S3G prototype have 6-months to learn the design and get qualified to operate it. The NRC has now had over 11-years since NuScale Power informed them of the natural circulation small modular reactor it was designing.

Using the February 2008 date, the NRC is actually giving the NRC the benefit of the doubt as in 2000, the US Department of Energy funded research for the development of an SMR, along with the INL and Oregon State University (OSU) until a positive conclusion supporting SMR technology in 2003.

OSU had already been recognized for its work on passive safety systems that use natural circulation to provide cooling for nuclear plants along with building scale AP600 and AP1000 plants for NRC design certification of those designs.

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US Reactor Designs

While re-creating the NRC is taking place two American designs for generating energy from nuclear must be focused on like a laser and brought online producing electricity as soon as humanly possible.

NuScale Power Small Modular Reactor (SMR) o The first NuScale Power SMR’s are planned to be used by Utah Associated Municipal Power System (UAMPS) on a leased site on the INL for joint public-private sector use.

Idaho power should contract for some amount of long-term MWe to have carbon free electricity for its aging hydropower and Idaho’s increasing population.

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Micro Nuclear Molten Salt Nuclear Battery (MSNB)

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o The MicroNuclear MSNB is ideal for use in providing electromagnetic pulse protected carbon free electricity from underground vaults on military bases for critical infrastructure.

NOTE The US needs more domestic forging capability and capacity. Prior to 2010, four regions were identified during Critical Infrastructure Protection (CIP) meetings to create new advanced manufacturing environmental controlled, robotic 300-ton forging facilities. They were, the Tidewater area in Virginia; two on either side of the Mississippi River north of Baton Rouge, Louisiana and one near Richland, Washington on the Columbia River. All locations intended to take advantage of water transportation.

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International Consortium

As a first international phase, America enjoin Australia, Canada, France, India, Japan, South Korea, and the United Kingdom working together facilitating nuclear power domestically and for export to countries offering solutions under the nexus of agriculture, water and energy to feed the world, while providing safe water and energy to avoid disease, conflict, and self-sufficiency in the form of carbon free sustainability.

Today with a world population of 7.5 billion reportedly there are around 800 million people without enough food to eat. Poor nutrition causes nearly 45% of deaths in children under five. Millions more die each year because of the lack of safe water. The world grows 95% of its food in the uppermost layer of soil. In the past 150-years the most productive soil has disappeared. According to the United Nations (UN) Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) if we continue to degrade the soil at the rate we are now, the world could run out of topsoil in 60-years. Ponder the real-life sense of urgency to meet the demands for food and water of the worlds estimated population of 9 plus billion people in just 31-years by 2050. The one carbon free energy source available to increase the food supply, provide adequate safe water and restore the topsoil in from safe nuclear power from the above consortium.

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South Korea APR 1400

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A third reactor evolved from the Combustion Engineering (CE) System 80 pressurized water reactor design at Palo Verde in Arizona is the Korea Electric Power Corporation APR-1400. Enjoining South Korea in the countries led by the United States above will make it possible for the APR-1400 to better compete with China and Russia. A modification for the NuScale SMR and Korean APR-1400 is now available to allow them to meet the specifications for Advanced Reactors including higher temperatures to serve chemical, petroleum refineries and economical oil shale conversion into oil and gas.

To help South Korea compete against China and Russia, Global Humanitarian Resources, Inc. (GHRI) working with MitoSystems, Inc., is creating a dedicated Mitopia Cloud to allow the companies involved in constructing the four AP-1400 reactors at Barakah in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) to communicate and coordinate in English-Korean-Arabic in real time. The US can provide additional assistance in training, quality, safety, security along with a Configuration Management (CE) system

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that will reduce the total ownership costs of the four units and Barakah, plus future sales of AP-1400 reactors.

Expand a consortium of the US private sector focusing like a laser on these three reactors bringing in companies like Exelon Corporation, NuScale Power LLC, Westinghouse Fuels, Lightbridge Corporation, Premier Technology, Fluor Corporation, Bechtel Corporation, Centrus Energy Corp., Energy Fuels Inc., and Global Humanitarian Resources, Inc. VI.

Partially Spent Light Water Reactor Fuel Management

Create a Public-Private interim storage facility in Idaho for partially spent light water reactor nuclear fuels for characterization by the Idaho National Laboratory (INL) to create a conversion technology to re-usable fuel when needed economically or strategically. Idaho has been the geographical center for the worlds commercial nuclear power development since 1949. Opening the two proposed interim storage facilities in New Mexico and Texas are just adding cost and complexity to partial spent fuel management for the US in favor of China and Russia. After 28-years of work since the 1982 Waste Policy Act, as part of a long-term conspiracy among government employees and private citizens NRC Chairman Gregory Jaczko, stopped the review of the nuclear materials repository at Yucca Mountain, Nevada in 2010 during the Obama administration ignoring existing legal statutes enacted by the US Congress. This one person’s action left partially spent light water reactor fuels stranded at commercial nuclear plants and in temporary dry cask storage locations adding costs to utilities, ratepayers and taxpayers, while creating more fodder for anti-nuclear groups, including operating under tax free laws enacted by the US Congress. Using the word “waste” referring to partially spent light water reactor fuels is wrong. There are not waste they are an asset to be managed in order to have them available as new fuel when required either economically or strategically. Ponder the current situation since 2010, when government and private sector American’s conspired to help Russia gain control of at least 20% of the US uranium production capacity. As you ponder, recall this set of facts: “Russia has agreements or memorandum of understanding with forty-four countries to provide nuclear power plants. Those forty-four countries represent over 38% of the worlds land mass and over 64% of the world population”, Russia does not care about feeding and providing safe water to the current 800 million people suffering much less the added 1.5 billion people by 2050. We do.

American’s are the most caring and giving people ever in world history. American’s went out and won two world wars. Now we have the opportunity to do with nuclear energy what no amount of money spent on wars or defense has ever done – feed the world and give them safe water thereby allowing people to work for themselves and their families without living in constant stress. Communist controlled countries will not change. It’s why so many countries and individuals choose the freedom America offers.

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US Reactor Designs in Testing on the INL by 2013

Focusing like a laser including cooperating together the public-private sector can have new reactors being tested on the INL by 2023. Located near the INL is Premier Technology www.ptius.net in Blackfoot, Idaho can help manufacture and assemble SMRs and MSNBs for testing on the INL. In addition to the INL, a locally approved site for 3,400 MWe on carbon free nuclear generating electricity in Payette, County, Idaho near the Oregon border was studied as part of the Columbia River

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Basin (CRB) by a doctoral candidate at OSU as part of her dissertation that found the CRB would be around 50,000 MWe short on electricity by 2050. The site is an ideal location for a strategic island of safe electromagnetic pulse (EMP) and cyber protected electricity for the northwest.

VIII. President Trump Executive Order 13865 March 29, 2019 President Trump clearly demonstrated once he is educated on a subject of importance to our national security, he acts. In this case America’s critical infrastructure. It took 18-years after I saw electromagnetic pulse (EMP) on a white board in Washington DC a few days after the 911 attack on the US for a leader to emerge and finally act. I believe it was only because of a meeting on Tuesday, February 12, 2019 created by iP3 International. A meeting that solicited a true to form response by Democrats. Most Americans over 60 are becoming more-and-more concerned over statements and public policy decisions made by Democrats. It is not confusing as to why. They like so many Americans have been indoctrinated instead of educated over the past 100-years; especially in the past few decades. In spite of warnings from a Democrat on January 10, 1963. It was by design many Americans do not have the capacity, capability or intellect to make informed decisions. One of the best examples of why can be found in the reading on the floor of Congress on Thursday, January 10, 1963, of the Current Communist Goals by Congressman Albert Sydney “Syd” Herlong Jr., of Florida.

Syd served in the House of Representatives from 1949 to 1969. From 1937 until 1985 he was a member of the Democrat Party. Learning firsthand of the expanding communist influence in the party, he became a Republican until his death on December 27, 1995.

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American Energy

America is blessed with vast natural resources of energy, water, land and people with the ingenuity to create better technology to use them for peaceful purposes benefiting all mankind. Thanks to our oil and gas industry, America is now the world leader once again in oil and gas production. Today the activity in the Texas Permian Basin is the learning ground for moving north to the Green River in Utah, Colorado and Wyoming, with the largest un-tapped oil and gas reserves in the world. To complete the energy picture Americans are restoring the US lead in nuclear energy, from the very state, which we led the world in starting in 1950 – Idaho. President Dwight D. Eisenhower’s vision of “Atoms for Peace” in 1953, for worldwide peace and prosperity is finally being realized.

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US Nuclear Supply Chain

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The US nuclear supply chain will only recover as SMR’s and the MSNB are in manufacturing and siting activities are underway. We must break the “linear approach chain” holding America hostage while China and Russia advance. Paul Marotta, Micro Nuclear, in Franklin Tennessee and Doug Sayer, Premier Technology in Blackfoot, Idaho have already agreed to move forward on MSNB manufacturing. They are examples of decision makes and innovators in America today. Paul spent years with Naval Reactors at Knolls Atomic Power Laboratory (KAPL), and Doug has been contracting with civilian and government clients manufacturing nuclear components, including for the AP1000’s being constructed in the southeast US for 20-years. They demonstrate the speed in decision making needed in the US to take back the lead from China and Russia.

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Critical paths for the US

The US must speed up manufacturing and deployment the two American designed reactors in III. above, while speeding up bringing the international and domestic consortiums in IV and V above or be isolated from more and more countries as China and Russia colonize them. As we approach the 243rd celebration of the founding of this great nation, we need to pause and take stock on our situation. A situation requiring a return to education instead of indoctrination. There is no better place to start then educating Americans about nuclear energy in creating a better world. If it were my choice, I would focus on doing whatever it takes to place NuScale SMRs in the UK, along with Micro Nuclear MSNBs on military bases in the UK under a new Security Company supporting electricity for US DOD critical infrastructure from around 450 MSNBs in underground vaults on bases that are EMP and physically protected. Agreements like this between the US and UK are nothing new.

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Recently, Richard McPherson attended a micro reactor workshop at the INL, where he was able to solidify his thoughts of America’s pathway forward after it was lost a decade ago. Richard has been a student of energy since 1957 and involved in nuclear since 1963 in the US Navy. Following his Navy experience Richard was asked to represent the US on a six-nation group set up as a result of Chernobyl to study “Nuclear Fuel Cycle Facilities, the Environment and Public Opinion” at the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA). Today, Richard lives in Idaho pursuing executable humanitarian solutions with other like-minded Americans under the nexus of agriculture, water and energy.