cyberclark

Tar Sands: How Much Is Out There and Can Nuclear Help?

The company’s sealed reactor can produce 70 megawatts etc.
I have never heard of them before!

Electrical heating of the strata is used successful by Shell Canada in BC. And, it makes a lot more sense environmentally than does burning huge amounts of natural gas to the same end.

The problem has been cheap power which, apparently this outfit can provide. I don't know anything about these 70MW plants (usually nuclear plants run 2000 MW each) but have to wonder the wisdom of sticking them on top of the slurry the tar sands is made of.

The Alberta Government has rejected any nuclear facilities for the tar sands instead backing the Mackenzie Valley pipeline and the natural gas that is to come south to provide the tar sands with much needed natural gas.