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The Powermag.com site seems to be melting down as well. After giving up on loading the page I was able to google a bit and found this article: "Nuclear Energy

by jobu 10y ago

The Powermag.com site seems to be melting down as well. After giving up on loading the page I was able to google a bit and found this article: "Nuclear Energy Startup Transatomic Backtracks on Key Promises" https://www.technologyreview.com/s/603731/nuclear-energy-startup-transatomic-backtracks-on-key-promises/ https://www.technologyreview.com/s/603731/nuclear-energy-sta... 2x the energy per ton of uranium is decent, but I wonder how they ever thought they could get 75x.

dredmorbius 10y ago
https://archive.fo/YoYEu https://archive.fo/YoYEu
acidburnNSA 10y ago
They thought they had a breeder reactor I guess. Typical reactors burn mostly U235 and a bit of bred-up Pu239 for an average burnup of the mined uranium of roughly 10 MWd/kg. Breeder reactors, on the other hand (both Thorium thermal MSR breeders and Uranium-Plutonium fast breeders) can get up very near the theoretical maximum of ~930 MWd/kg. The latter figure really demonstrates the sheer magnitude of the nuclear force in atoms. What a wonder to behold!