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The traveling wave reactor concept failed to pan out, and no it was not because of "brrr scary." Gate's project switched to a different design they were going t
by jasonwatkinspdx 6y ago
The traveling wave reactor concept failed to pan out, and no it was not because of "brrr scary." Gate's project switched to a different design they were going to build in China, but that got caught up in the bluster between Xi and Trump. In any case it's clear his startup has failed to come up with anything novel that significantly changes the cost math with nuclear, which is the actual problem.
- Aachen 6y agoThat's not what he writes in his book that came out iirc last month, specifically the "we moved to another design because this idea failed" I mean, but I didn't dive into it much further so I could be wrong.