Bill Gates’ traveling-wave reactor designuses an uranium so common on Earth it can provide everyone on the planet with the same level of power consumption Americans enjoy — for a million years.
Demo reactor scheduled to be built in 2020. As someone often says, Faster Please.
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With molten sodium as the working fluid and requiring fuel elements to get shuffled into the “burn zone,” this is explicitly not a Shipstone and, sadly, has a very high NIMBY factor.
–Anyone remember what the working fluid was in the ill-fated breeder reactor that stars in the panicky-muckraker We Almost Lost Detroit? Na.
With molten sodium as the working fluid and requiring fuel elements to get shuffled into the “burn zone,” (check it on Wikipedia) this is explicitly not a Shipstone and, sadly, has a very high NIMBY factor.
–Anyone remember what the working fluid was in the ill-fated breeder reactor that stars in the panicky-muckraker We Almost Lost Detroit? Na.
In any event, cheap energy that is patently green despite the objections of the statists is a good thing. Cheap energy is liberty, as well as the fountainhead of modern technology and innovation.