Points on Nuclear Power
France designed a few types of reactor and mass-produced them around the country — and now gets over 70% of its electricity from nuclear energy. Currently, about 20% of the energy generated in the United States is from nuclear, according to the U.S. Energy Information Administration. Traditionally a plant costs $10B. https://www.cnet.com/features/nuclear-power-is-clean-and-safe-why-arent-we-using-more-of-it
The Gates Foundation’s TerraPower is fissio n-based. “Natrium reactor; liquid sodium as a cooling agent.” Liquid sodium has a higher boiling point and can absorb a lot more heat than water, which means high pressure does not build up inside the reactor. … The target cost for a commercial Natrium plant is $1 billion in capital expenditures, according to TerraPower. That includes engineering, procurement and construction costs of the plant…. prevent accidents like what happened at the Fukushima Daiichi plant in Japan. After an earthquake shut down the plant’s reactor, its back-up cooling system failed. … ‘spent’ fuel, occupies 2/3 less volume than today’s reactors https://www.cnbc.com/2021/04/08/bill-gates-terrapower-is-building-next-generation-nuclear-power.html
The Gates Foundation has been working on nuclear power for a while, but it seemed like they couldn’t get government buy-in so they started talking with China, and then Chinese-US relations fell apart. *Inside Bill’s Brain* documentary.
