The Natrium Reactor and Energy Storage System

[BootinUp]

Overview of the technology and plant design. This is the Bill Gates funded Terrapower project being built in Wyoming

[BComplex]

1. When is the USA going to start building these facilities below ground where they can't be bombed or

sabotaged? We've seen what russia has done to nuclear power plants in Ukraine during their war of aggression. And we've seen what saboteurs have done to power stations in the USA. We need to start protecting our energy infrastructure somehow.

I also think it would be a great idea for every home/apartment building/office building to start having its own power source wherever possible. Government subsidies would be great in that regard.

If shopping centers would start having solar panels on parking area covered parking, it would keep everyones cars from being roasted, AND provide power to the shopping centers.

On edit: BTW, this power plant depicted in the video is genius!

[Bmoboy]

2. Two questions

How do you make liquid sodium?

What happens if any of the liquid sodium touches water?

[BootinUp]

3. I am just seeing this tech and all, but

On the first question I would say start the reactor, slowly maybe.

On the second question, as long as the water in your question is at atmospheric pressure it will just evaporate before getting very close to the very hot Liquid Metal.

[vanamonde]

4. Check this out

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sodium_Reactor_Experiment#:~:text=In%20July%201959%2C%20tetralin%20seeped,between%20July%2012%20and%2026.

Also Fermi-1 in 1966

[et tu]

5. is this still fission

or is it fusion?

[BootinUp]

6. Good ol' fission. Nt

[et tu]

7. thank you

much better when fusion is perfected- hopefully soon!

[BootinUp]

8. Not likely. If we are to make significant

Progress against the effects of climate change it will have to be by using fission reactors.

[hunter]

9. As I've pointed out in other threads, if we build these reactors we don't need wind or solar power.

Nobody wants to say that out loud, but I think it's a good thing.

Large scale wind and solar developments on previously undeveloped land and seascapes are environmentally destructive obscenities that will only prolong our dependence on fossil fuels, especially natural gas.