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To whom it may concern:

Greetings from the small nationstate of New Truronia. I, Roger Renalds, president of New Truronia, am sending out this message to any and all nations that would be interested in aiding my fledgling nation and its people enter the nuclear age of power.

Since being granted the right to be a nation in our own right, we have been seeking ways to improve the Truronian power grid. Our 24 year old coal and oil fired powerstations are now struggling to cope with demand and we seek a cheap and efficient way of replacing them. It has been decided after much research that nuclear power would be the most viable option for the short term and we are hoping to someday find our own sources of Uranium.

The nation of Truronia would require 1 (or more) interested nations to send 1 (or more) interested construction firms to build 5 nuclear reactors. The total payment on completion of the job is negotiable although, all parties must be aware that as a fledgling nation, the economy is weak and thus payment would be long term.

Aswell as the above, we would also like to seek to import enough Uranium to keep the reactors going. No more, no less. The price of the import contract is negotiable and open to any nations who wish to aide this fledgling nation.

I am aware that many nations may find the use of Uranium or the construction of nuclear powerplants as alarming due to the fact that it could lead to proliferation of a WMD stockpile. We, as a nation have no plans to go nuclear as a way of obtaining nuclear weapons and as such, will always have an open doors policy to any representative of a nation to come and inspect the nation. All areas will be open although strict security controls will be in place. Any nation wishing to make an inspection should apply in writing to the Truronian Government.

I hope this message is recieved well. Best wishes to you, your country and your people,

Roger Renalds, President, New Truronia

Department of Trade of Oslea

Uranium is one of our abundant resources, we have mines all across Oslea.

Exactly how much would you need?

Kenneth Abrams
Minister of Trade

The Corporation of Raven corps would like to help

We will be glad too assist you in your energy needs, if of course, you are willing too collaborate with us, namely join us in alliance of trade and military. Thank you.

-Ministry of Foreign Affairs

To: Kenneth Abrams

Greetings from New Truronia.

Unfortunately at this time we are unable to guage how much Uranium will be required due to not knowing the size/type of reactors that are to be offerd to us.

However, we shall keep your country on our books and when we are aware of how much will be required we shall be in touch again. Thank you for your interest in aiding our nation.

Yours, Roger Renalds, President, New Truronia.

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To Whom it may concern in the corportation of Raven corps

Thank you for your vested interest and swift response to my counbies plea however, I have a few questions I would like to ask.

1:In what way would you like to help?
2:How much help can you send?
3:What would you consider to be an adequate amount of money for the services provided?

Yours, Roger Renalds, President, New Truronia

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To:New Ausha

Thank you for your interest in helping our country however, at this time, New Truronia is in no fit state to enter into a trade/military alliance due to a very weak economy and lack of items for trade. We may however reconsider your offer should our circumstancxes change.

Again, many thanks for your offer and my appologies that we cannot accept.

Yours, Roger Renalds, President, New Truronia

[QUOTE=New Truronia;12015368]To: Kenneth Abrams



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To Whom it may concern in the corportation of Raven corps

Thank you for your vested interest and swift response to my counbies plea however, I have a few questions I would like to ask.

1:In what way would you like to help?
2:How much help can you send?
3:What would you consider to be an adequate amount of money for the services provided?

Yours, Roger Renalds, President, New Truronia

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The Corporation will offer these services for free provided that you dont mind a small distributaion center to be built. We have always wanted to help the nation of this world develop into productive nations that would help the wolrd in general.

WE can provide all but the following:

Land

You must supply the land for it to be built on. We can take care of the rest and train you people to mantian it.

[OOC: How about SkyGen Power Plc (http://forums.jolt.co.uk/showthread.php?t=484452)?]

Greetings.

The Symmetriad has a long experience in providing energy solutions, and we are ready to provide renewal and extension of the power generation systems for your country.

The cost of nuclear power is steadily decreasing, establishing itself as the most viable modern solution, and we always seek for ways to keep it decreasing without compromising any other aspects.

Our solution for energy production is integrated systems, containing fuel enrichment, conventional and breeding reactors, and fuel recycling inside a single large facility. This eliminated potential hazards of nuclear fuel supplies or recycled fuel stealing, as only natural uranium enters the facility, and nothing radioactive leaves it.
We always build the parts working with radioactive materials underground, to make them as protected as possible. A facility is normally serviced by a closed city, which, for most nations, can be built on the surface.

Our systems combine nuclear power with co-production of solar and wind power. Integrated solar/wind stations are used as the auxiliary systems for the main stations, and heat exits through an updraft tower, adding to power produced.


The optimal solution for your demands, according to our evaluation, would be a single complex using two heavy-water and three sodium cooled breeder reactors, the first working on slightly depleted uranium left from enrichment of fuel for breeders, and their heavily depleted fuel reprocessed in the breeders. This, in complex, allows to reduce total uranium consumption by 40% compared to conventional pressurized light water reactors, and by 15% compared to any single-type solution. As the breeders will produce new fuel from depleted leftovers of U-238, less new uranium will be required, and the system will always be able to accept new natural uranium.

All reactors are in 1500 MWe class. Each heavy water system is rated at 4600 MW thermal and 1520 MW electrical output. The breeders produce 3800 MW thermal and 1560 MW electrical energy. Peak output of each system is 1650 MWe. The 2.5%-efficient updraft tower will add 500 MW of energy. Since about 200 MW will be used by the facility itself, the normal total system output will be 8000 MW, and peak output, available under overload, 8600 MW.

Since you are limited in funds and prefer to minimize the initial investment, we suggest to construct the reactors on low depth, by open construction, and use existing town for personnel quarters. If you have closed cities already, or a small (40,000-100,000) town which can be converted to such, we can use it as the base for the facility. As you also do not plan to produce highly enriched uranium, we consider it better to import already enriched fuel, and only base a small number of enrichment systems on the spot, for reprocessing requirements. These reactors do not breed weapon-grade fissile material by themselves, and enrichment systems provided will not be able to enrich it to high grades, so the possible suspicion will be minimized.

The normal cost of our plants is 2 billions per reactor, which is already below market value of N$2.5 bln for 1,500 MWe plants, and, appreciating peaceful intent, to help your development, we will provide the system for total cost of N$9.5 billions. The payment may be conducted in five or ten years so that not to stress your economy. We are sure, however, that with an influx of power your industry will rise enough to pay off even sooner.
The operating costs, due to low fuel consumption and high automation, are normally N$30 mln for maintenance and N$20 mln for fuel per reactor, or N$250 mln total per year. With partial enrichment on spot and use of local workforce, it can be cut to only N$120 millions per year total.

To provide you with local specialists capable of servicing the plants, we offer you to select 10,000 of technically talented people between 18 and 22 years, which will study in our universities for a full course. No fee will be charged, provided that they will, work on our power plants during their education, receiving the necessary experience in the process. This is a normal practice in Vault 10, not a special requirement, and our education system is optimized to collaborate with industry and science, highly integrating theory and practice, and providing expensive top-grade education without taxing the citizens or indebting the students. Furthermore, these specialists will also found the base for technological and scientific advancement of your nation, which will allow high progress levels without dependence on foreign technology.



Respectfully yours,
Hiro Ishikawa,
The Symmetriad Board of Directors Representative.

To Whom it may concern in the corportation of Raven corps

Greetings from the nationstate of New Truronia. Thank you again for providing a swift reply however, my nation still requires more information (having recieved information from another interested party.)

We would like to request the exact type of reactor to be built, its specifications (not blueprints, we respect a nations right to its designs), the manpowr required to build and run the plants and the expected life time of the plants.

With regards to the distribution center, we would like to know exactly what it would be distributing, where it would be distributing too and the estimated impact imports/exports would have on the developing New Truronian economy.

Many thanks again from the people of New Truronia for your vested interest,

Yours, Roger Renalds, President, New Truronia.

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To: Hiro Ishikawa, The Symmetriad Board of Directors Representative.

Thank you for your responce to our nations plea and the details you provided with it. We find the service you are offering extremly competitive in tis day and age and even at the high price, an affordable investment for the future.

Just to inform you, we are currently in correspondence with another interested party although, we require a lot more information from them before we can procede wth any srt of agreement with them.

We have several suitable town sites within our nation for the idea you propose and would welcome your engineers to visit our country to finalise sites if your application for the contract is accepted.

Would you be able to supply the already enriched Uranium until we can find our own sources (which, for a small exchange when fiound, we could supply to you below market value to enrich)?

We would be looking at taking your 10 year finance offer so as to not not stretch the budget to much. On top of this, if you are awarded the contract we would be extremly welcoming of your university students to work in our plants as part of their training as, in the long run, it will benefit our nation.

Thank you for your interest.

Yours, Roger Renalds, President, New Truronia

The Crusader State of Sol Giuldor would be willing to ship spare uranium if New Truronia will sign a treaty of alliance with us.

To Whom it may concern in the Crusader State of Sol Giuldor.

Greetings. At this time, New Truronia has no interests in entering into an alliance with another nation due to our developing economy, lack of military might and our desire to become the best we can be.

Entering an alliance of anykind at this time would be detrimental, in the oppinion of the Senate, to New Truronias development as it narrows down our future options. We shall keep your nation on our books for future reference though.

Thank you for your responce,

Yours, Roger Renalds, President, New Truronia.

[OOC: How about SkyGen Power Plc (http://forums.jolt.co.uk/showthread.php?t=484452)?]

[ooc: Thanks Southeast Asia but its not what i'm looking for :)]

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Salutations,

The Autonomous Free States of Sunya would be happy to aid your nation in the development of your nuclear power program.

We suggest the use of the Sunyan designed DNU (Deuterium Natural Uranium) reactor in your power program. The DNU can be constructed relatively cheaply and does not require an enrichment program. Natural, unenriched uranium is used for fuel and heavy water is used as both coolant and moderator. This also allows greater utilization of uranium fuel, thus lowering fuelling costs (an advantage for a nation without any yet discovered uranium reserves).

The fuel rods are located inside of pressurized tubes contained within the reactor vessel. The pressurized tube configuration allows the reactor to be refuelled while still in operation, one tube at a time, further lowering operating costs.

A 1000Mw reactor can be expected to produce 500-700 kilograms of waste annually. This waste will be radioactive, and primarily composed of Uranium 238 and fission byproducts. The waste can in turn be subjected to oxide reduction by heat and recast into metal rods to power future breeder reactors. Temporary storage of the waste can be conducted on site in concrete pools. This wold allow your nation to deploy DNU reactors to meet immediate energy needs and use the stockpile of fissionable waste in future breeder reactors, a technology we would be happy to share. The DNU reactor design is also scalable, allowing the same basic components to be incorporated into small research or medical reactors.

The cost of this program between our two nations is negotiable. We will be happy to construct the generating plants as well as the heavy water processing facilities necessary to support such a power grid. This project would be of great interest to us, as the research potential of such a project is great.

We await your response.

In peace and solidarity,

Daemon Mahasattva
Voice of the Central Coucil
Autonomous Free States of Sunya

To Roger Renalds, President of New Truronia


We will certainly supply all the required fuel for the plants, for the first stage already loaded in the reactors, and, to avoid any possible attacks in transit, further fissile material supplies will be transported by Aerospace Logistics escorted flights.
The supply can continue for as long as needed, and our company will certainly accept the deal to purchase natural uranium for enrichment. Furthermore, once the nuclear center in your country is built and operating, it can be easily extended with enrichment plant, so you can produce fuel yourself. We can just outsource the enrichment at first, with an option of transferring the facilities at some point.

The student exchange offer actually goes further. Of course, we'll supply the stations by qualified personnel at the first stage, but you also have an option to send your people to study in our universities. Once they return, you will have your own specialists with knowledge and experience to operate the plants (although we always keep a few highly experienced experts for safety concerns). Normally our education is expensive, but construction of new plants is an excellent opportunity to cut the costs, and we offer our clients to use it for no additional charge. Later the nuclear city will even be able to include a high-grade educational center, providing your country with own nuclear scientists and engineers.


While the initial costs of the plant are really significant, any cheaper options would either sacrifice efficiency, costing more in the long term, or have compromised safety. In the long term, using efficient and reliable plants actually costs less. That's why we offer spreading the payment over up to ten years.

Also, note that what we offer is not just a shipment of reactors or "black box" power generation, but a complete, long-term and scalable solution. It integrates power production, fuel processing and reprocessing, minimizing both waste and handling complications, since most is refined into fuel and burnt locally again. Maintenance costs are also lowered considerably.
For instance, normally hiring personnel for nuclear plants is quite expensive, and commercial education in the area even more so, not only due to high cost of training itself, but due to countries including the cost of technology transfer. With our solution you will in six years have the full complement of people needed to run the facility, and, moreover, teach others. You won't even depend on us to maintain the systems, and gain a greater degree of technological independence. Extending the nuclear center or building new nuclear industries will cost considerably less at that point, since most work can be done by local personnel. In other words, creation of a nuclear city can be a solid foundation for high-tech future.



Respectfully yours,
Hiro Ishikawa,
The Symmetriad Board of Directors Representative.