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From their press release: "The project features a 345 MW sodium-cooled fast reactor with a molten salt-based energy storage system. The storage technology can
by hereme888 2y ago
From their press release:
"The project features a 345 MW sodium-cooled fast reactor with a molten salt-based energy storage system. The storage technology can boost the system’s output to 500 MW of power when needed, which is equivalent to the energy required to power around 400,000 homes. The energy storage capability allows the plant to integrate seamlessly with renewable resources and is the only advanced reactor design with this unique feature."
Getting all the permits and passing all the reviews without running out of money, etc, is really difficult in these projects. I hope they make it.
- mikeyouse 2y agoPresumably this should be very well positioned to do so -- these projects are expensive but Bill Gates has a net worth of well north of $100 billion. If it's a "money" or "timeline" problem, he can solve it -- if it's an economics one in the end, he might not want to.
- fragmede 2y ago500 MW or 400,000 homes, but what is that in terms of data centers? Is that enough to power us-west-1? assuming 50kw per rack of Nvidia GPUs(which is high. usually it's closer to 10), that's 10,000 racks or about an acres worth of datacenter.