2026, move faster, we need to steam roll this thing! Get it fully online in 1 year! I know this is substantially quicker than other reactors but AI and Crypto need it now haha
Economic investigator Frank G Melbourne Australia is following this very exciting and compelling decision to use A Molton Salt Reactor as base load power great content cheers Frank
This is a breeder reactor which is best at producing plutonium for nuclear bombs, rather than power for ratepayers. It takes fissile material and the 99.3% of natural Uranium, U238, and turns it into fissile Plutonium, and then more plutonium, the preferred material for bombs. How the U.S. Government's interest is served in subsidizing Nuclear proliferation is beyond me. India rapidly diverted it's Canadian CANDU reactor to breed plutonium bombs, quickly followed by Pakistan. Saudi Arabia wants the bomb, as do many developing nations. Sodium metal fast breeder reactors are nothing new, though they were abandoned as sodium metal explodes violently when exposed to water and the reactor is unreliable, and has much reduced reaction time to deal with problems, such as that experienced during the meltdown of Fermi 1. DTE still refuses reporters access to the site. Given a flood can cool a section of sodium coolant to form a blockage and explode another. Novel and proven safe are opposites. UAW leaders opposed Fermi 1 being next to a population center and were proven correct. It does, however promise to be the most expensive power for ratepayers. This is a dangerous proliferative technology that we should oppose vigorously.
As far as i understand it, you can't use spend fuel from a commercial reactor to make a useful bomb. Plutonium is the name of the element but there are different isotopes in spend fuel, which makes it extremely difficult to seperate the Pu-239(bomb stuff) from the other isotopes (240 and 241). In order to actually make usable plutonium from spend fuel you either need high enrichment and or very short duration irradiation, so not economically viable when you want to produce actual energy from the reactor. Wait sodium reactors unreliable? There have been plenty that have ran okay. EBR-II, EBR-I, BN-600, BN-800, Phénix.
@@stijn2644 Pretty much all plutonium comes from U238 irradiated with a neutron, becomes U239 and a couple of beta decays gives Pu239. Easiest place to do this in bulk is in a nuclear reactor or a blanket vessel just outside. Where else are there so many free neutrons? Purex and bismuth separation are predominant means of plutonium purification, and are perfectly capable of producing bomb grade plutonium from spent fuel, much easier than uranium enrichment. Breeder reactors were primarily considered for the production of plutonium during the cold war for bombs. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PUREX#/media/File:Uranium_Reprocessing.jpg en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bismuth_phosphate_process Conventional reactors use decay of U235 to drive the reaction and keep it out of log growth. Breeder reactors are further into the inflection of log growth of the chain reaction, and can quickly loose stability. This is why there was such a split on the Superphenix in the scientific community where 80 Physicists penned a well supported letter. CEA consultant Fensch concluded: “fast breeder reactors are the most complicated, the most polluting, the most inefficient and the most ambiguous means that man has invented to date to reduce the consumption of nuclear fuel” scienceandglobalsecurity.org/archive/sgs17schneider.pdf Please look a little deeper on the breeder reactors you say were stable. EBR1 had a meltdown. The Russian sodium reactors have had several leaks of water into the sodium which must have caused massive fires. Superphenix, the commercial version of Phenix was exceptionally unreliable, operational less than 15% of the time. It was a financial disaster and a continuous threat to safety.
@2:53 US energy demand doubles from 2022 to 2023???? wtf
AI and EVs, growing population.
2026, move faster, we need to steam roll this thing! Get it fully online in 1 year! I know this is substantially quicker than other reactors but AI and Crypto need it now haha
It's crazy that we are still building coal plants.
Good old China. [sarcasm]
why... do You do this?
"Costs around half the price" but is a third the output. But hopefully costs will come down and fast spectrum breader reactors will become more common
tell Wall Street about hope
Economic investigator Frank G Melbourne Australia is following this very exciting and compelling decision to use A Molton Salt Reactor as base load power great content cheers Frank
Why even Small Modular Nuclear Reactor is always overbudget.(?) Desperated we.!
The guy asking questions for CNBC did not appear to be very science literate. Hopefully, they will be allowed to build this plant.
Great news, but it takes way too long to plan and build!
Investment opportunity in Nano Nuclear Energy Inc now.
Never get in the way of government guaranteed monopoly money and a CEO.
Next reaction - October ends Damaged 😍
AI and CRYPTO will build their own nuclear electricity plants.😮😮😮😮
Buy UEC
With Rising Demand for ELECTRICITY from AI, this is the solution.
We should cool the reactors with graphite!! :)
Well there always that Musk kid and shipping wast off to space or storing it on the moon
This is a breeder reactor which is best at producing plutonium for nuclear bombs, rather than power for ratepayers. It takes fissile material and the 99.3% of natural Uranium, U238, and turns it into fissile Plutonium, and then more plutonium, the preferred material for bombs. How the U.S. Government's interest is served in subsidizing Nuclear proliferation is beyond me. India rapidly diverted it's Canadian CANDU reactor to breed plutonium bombs, quickly followed by Pakistan. Saudi Arabia wants the bomb, as do many developing nations. Sodium metal fast breeder reactors are nothing new, though they were abandoned as sodium metal explodes violently when exposed to water and the reactor is unreliable, and has much reduced reaction time to deal with problems, such as that experienced during the meltdown of Fermi 1. DTE still refuses reporters access to the site. Given a flood can cool a section of sodium coolant to form a blockage and explode another. Novel and proven safe are opposites. UAW leaders opposed Fermi 1 being next to a population center and were proven correct. It does, however promise to be the most expensive power for ratepayers. This is a dangerous proliferative technology that we should oppose vigorously.
As far as i understand it, you can't use spend fuel from a commercial reactor to make a useful bomb. Plutonium is the name of the element but there are different isotopes in spend fuel, which makes it extremely difficult to seperate the Pu-239(bomb stuff) from the other isotopes (240 and 241). In order to actually make usable plutonium from spend fuel you either need high enrichment and or very short duration irradiation, so not economically viable when you want to produce actual energy from the reactor.
Wait sodium reactors unreliable? There have been plenty that have ran okay. EBR-II, EBR-I, BN-600, BN-800, Phénix.
@@stijn2644 Pretty much all plutonium comes from U238 irradiated with a neutron, becomes U239 and a couple of beta decays gives Pu239. Easiest place to do this in bulk is in a nuclear reactor or a blanket vessel just outside. Where else are there so many free neutrons? Purex and bismuth separation are predominant means of plutonium purification, and are perfectly capable of producing bomb grade plutonium from spent fuel, much easier than uranium enrichment. Breeder reactors were primarily considered for the production of plutonium during the cold war for bombs.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PUREX#/media/File:Uranium_Reprocessing.jpg
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bismuth_phosphate_process
Conventional reactors use decay of U235 to drive the reaction and keep it out of log growth. Breeder reactors are further into the inflection of log growth of the chain reaction, and can quickly loose stability. This is why there was such a split on the Superphenix in the scientific community where 80 Physicists penned a well supported letter. CEA consultant Fensch concluded: “fast breeder reactors are the most complicated, the most polluting, the most inefficient and the most ambiguous means that man has invented to date to reduce the consumption of nuclear fuel”
scienceandglobalsecurity.org/archive/sgs17schneider.pdf
Please look a little deeper on the breeder reactors you say were stable. EBR1 had a meltdown. The Russian sodium reactors have had several leaks of water into the sodium which must have caused massive fires. Superphenix, the commercial version of Phenix was exceptionally unreliable, operational less than 15% of the time. It was a financial disaster and a continuous threat to safety.