Gigawatt-year nuclear-geothermal energy storage for light-water and high-temperature reactors

International Congress on Advances in Nuclear Power Plants 2012, ICAPP 2012

Volumn 4, Issue , 2012, Pages 2728-2737

  Forsberg, C W ^a   Lee, Y ^a   Kulhanek, M ^a   Driscoll, M J ^a  

^a MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ECONOMIC ASSESSMENTS; EFFICIENT COUPLING; ELECTRICITY DEMANDS; GEOTHERMAL HEAT; GEOTHERMAL SYSTEMS; HEAT STORAGE CAPACITY; HEAT STORAGE SYSTEMS; HIGH PRICE; HIGH SURFACE-TO-VOLUME RATIO; HIGH TEMPERATURE; HYDRO-FRACTURE; NUCLEAR HEAT SOURCES; NUCLEAR PLANT; PEAK POWER; PERMEABLE ROCKS; POWER CYCLE; POWER SOURCES; PRESSURIZED WATER; RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT; ROCK DISSOLUTION; SEASONAL STORAGE; SUPERCRITICAL CARBON DIOXIDES; UTILITY MARKETS;

CARBON DIOXIDE; GEOTHERMAL FIELDS; GEOTHERMAL HEATING; GEOTHERMAL POWER PLANTS; HEAT STORAGE; HEAT TRANSFER; HIGH TEMPERATURE REACTORS; NUCLEAR POWER PLANTS; ROCKS; SUPERCRITICAL FLUID EXTRACTION;

ELECTRICITY;

EID: 84869045382     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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