New type of nuclear reactor.
New nuke could POWER WORLD UNTIL 2083 ? The Register
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A company spun off from MIT is claiming it has cracked the holy grail of nuclear technology: a reactor design that runs on materials the industry currently discards as waste and which could meet all of the world's power demands for the next 70 years. It's also "walk-away safe," the designers claim, making it immune to the kind of meltdown that destroyed the Fukushima reactors.
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The plan is to build them ready to plug in:
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The initial design for WAMSR is a 500MWe (megawatt electrical) plant that can be manufactured as a standalone unit and be shipped directly to customers, ready to be fueled up and switched on. It would cost around $1.5bn – which may sound like a lot, but is dirt cheap compared to a garden-varity nuke plant these days.
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EDIT - the presentation.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature...&v=AAFWeIp8JT0
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Last edited by Arragonis; 03-15-2013 at 05:50 AM..
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