Thursday, June 13, 2024

Bill Gates' Terrapower in the news

click here for AP Story

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Additional information (wikipedia article) about sodium-cooled fast reactors

Comment:

A name from the past. I have to fess up about something. I didn't know what the proposition was really all about. I'd say my first impression of it was negative.

If memory serves, President Richard Nixon favored this approach over the existing molten-salt reactor that had already done a proof-of-concept proto-type. Anyway, if this is approved by the government in 2024, it may be better than nothing. Comes a bit late, however. Russia is said to have commercial grade fast reactors already.









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