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Regardless of the brokenness, the fact remains: https://xkcd.com/1162/ https://xkcd.com/1162/ This is everything we need. Harnessing this maturely, appropria
by chasil 4y ago
Regardless of the brokenness, the fact remains:
https://xkcd.com/1162/ https://xkcd.com/1162/
This is everything we need.
Harnessing this maturely, appropriately, means that we don't burn < 10% of the power before disposal.
This means that we use molten salt, not pressurized water, and we leave the technology of the 1950’s behind.
- hedora 4y agoOne conversion the article mentions is this molten salt technology: https://www.terrapower.com/our-work/natriumpower/ https://www.terrapower.com/our-work/natriumpower/
- jabl 4y agoThat's a sodium cooled reactor, not a molten salt reactor. Sodium is a metal, not a salt.
- hedora 4y agoCorrect, but here is the source of my confusion: > which features a cost-competitive sodium fast reactor combined with a molten salt energy storage system The molten salt is basically a big thermal battery.