Mineral Energy Initiative (MIE) of Gemological Institute Of America (GIA) creates an experimental power plant that uses minerals as fuel and it's results are amusing.
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The MIE power plant is a laboratory-scale test of mineral fuel, and the most recent results show some impressive developments and achievements.
Here we will give you a brief overview of the power plant. To get a much more detailed insight, you should follow the description of the project provided by Gemological Institute of America (GIA) in its article.
The power plant is built around a small nuclear reactor core that is powered by a liquid fuel. The liquid fuel is created from natural radioactive minerals. The liquid is kept in a chamber and then heated with a constant supply of natural gas to vaporize. The vapor is then processed to obtain pressurized hydrogen. The pressurized hydrogen is then burned in a combustion chamber in order to create a flow of hot pressurized gas that is supplied to the turbine.
To summarize it this way:
The minerals react with a fission reactor core and release their energy in the form of heat that boils the fuel. This fuel is then converted into a liquid in a cooling chamber. The liquid is continuously pumped to the vaporizer where it is heated with natural gas. The pressurized hydrogen is created from the vaporized fuel and supplied to the turbine where it generates electricity.
The power plant can generate more than 10 MW of power, so its total energy efficiency can reach 90.
If you want to read more about the project, you can check the article or the following videos:
MIE stands for Mineral Fuel Initiative, a testbed project of the Institute of Gemology. It is intended to study the possibility of replacing fossil fuels with naturally radioactive minerals that can be used for nuclear fission as fuel in reactors.
MIE is unique in the world as this is a first of its kind fusion project. There are no other projects where minerals, which are rich in uranium and thorium, are used to create electricity from a nuclear fission reactor.
The reactor and the fuel will be supplied and operated by the European Commission.
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