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Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin

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Wed Jan 15, 2025, 02:47 PM Jan 15

Bill Gates' Terrapower permitted to unleash 345 MW sodium-cooled nuclear reactor

Bill Gates-backed nuclear energy firm Terrapower announced that it has received approval from the Wyoming Industrial Siting Council (ISC) on its permit for the first Natrium plant, Kemmerer Power Station Unit 1.

The approval will allow for the construction of non-nuclear facilities – including the energy island portion that houses the molten-salt energy storage tanks and turbines – of the Natrium plant.

The Natrium technology features an advanced nuclear design with a 345 MW sodium-cooled fast reactor with a gigawatt-scale molten salt-based energy storage system.

The energy storage capability allows the plant to integrate seamlessly with renewable resources and an overall increase in grid resiliency. Terrapower says that the Natrium plant is the only advanced reactor design with this unique feature.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/companies/bill-gates-terrapower-permitted-to-unleash-345-mw-sodium-cooled-nuclear-reactor/ar-AA1xeUSE

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Bill Gates' Terrapower permitted to unleash 345 MW sodium-cooled nuclear reactor (Original Post) Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Jan 15 OP
Let's wait until NNadir, our resident nuclear power expert, weighs in on this one. I am one of his nuclear..... RussellCattle Jan 15 #1
More of an Energy/Environment post, really. eppur_se_muova Jan 15 #2

RussellCattle

(1,855 posts)
1. Let's wait until NNadir, our resident nuclear power expert, weighs in on this one. I am one of his nuclear.....
Wed Jan 15, 2025, 03:40 PM
Jan 15

.......power converts and now an advocate, but confess that I wonder if "sodium cooled, fast reactor" meets his standards.

eppur_se_muova

(38,306 posts)
2. More of an Energy/Environment post, really.
Wed Jan 15, 2025, 10:53 PM
Jan 15

Scan that Forum and you'll find that's where all aspects of nuclear power are discussed regularly, sometimes heatedly, sometimes well-informedly, sometimes not.

Now, a new structural theory of atomic nuclei, that would be Science. Applied technology ... not so much.

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