The following report by ZeroHedge:
These plans usually have a power capacity of 300MW or less, which is about 1/3rd of regular reactors.
TerraPower has officially “joined the race” against Russia and China to develop lower-cost nuclear reactors, according to FT this week.
CEO Chris Levesque said they are seeking US regulatory approval for their innovative liquid sodium-cooled reactor this month. The Natrium reactors could be constructed at nearly half the cost of traditional water-cooled nuclear reactors.
TerraPower, which has secured nearly $1bn in private investments, has also partnered with the Emirates Nuclear Energy Corporation to explore the deployment of Natrium reactors in the UAE for electricity and hydrogen production.
With up to $2bn in promised support from the US government, the company is advancing its inaugural project in Kemmerer, Wyoming. Despite pending permits, construction near a former coal power site will start in June, focusing on preliminary, non-nuclear structures. TerraPower aims to activate the plant by 2030, according to the report.
Levesque told FT: “When you use liquid sodium as a coolant instead of water it’s a game-changer. Natrium plants will cost half of what light water reactor plants cost . . . and we are moving our project along pretty aggressively.”
FT reports that American firms are striving to match their counterparts in Russia and China, who have already operationalized two Small Modular Reactor (SMR) plants. These include a floating plant in Pevek, Russia, and another in Shidao Bay, China.
Meanwhile, the U.S. nuclear sector is hindered by elevated interest rates, surging expenses, and a scarcity of the enriched uranium needed for new reactors – not to mention the far left ‘woke’ crowd who continues to protest due to ‘safety concerns’ about what is really the safest, most efficient and greenest way to generate power…
FT notes that in November, rising costs led NuScale, an Oregon company, to scrap its plans for America’s inaugural SMR after utilities balked at a proposed 50% price hike.
TerraPower has yet to quote prices for its Natrium-generated power. Its Kemmerer reactor, initially a demonstration, aims for full-scale commercial operation. In October 2022, TerraPower and PacifiCorp, part of Warren Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway, announced plans to explore the deployment of five more Natrium reactors by 2035.
“Sodium-cooled reactors operate at lower pressures, which requires fewer safety systems. That reduces problems that could go wrong with the plant and reduces costs because they can be built with simpler materials while maintaining safety,” concluded Adam Stein, director of nuclear energy innovation at The Breakthrough Institute.
AUTHOR COMMENTARY
Anything with Gates’ backing is always an instant no-go for me, as a general rule. Nothing he touches is for our true good, only his and his buddies.
This push to continuously whitewash nuclear energy as “green” is comical. I remember in elementary and middle school they would pound it in our heads that nuclear is bad, dirty, and quite dangerous if it becomes unstable or untreated. Now the climate greenies want us to believe that it is clean and sustainable. How convenient; but judging by the stupidity and malaise of the masses it would seem there is not a lot of pushback against this.
SEE: European Commission Faces Lawsuit For Trying To Push Nuclear Energy As “Green”
Of course, God forbid should the power go out for a time and the nuclear energy becomes unstable and has a meltdown, leads to a new ecological disaster.
And the nations were angry, and thy wrath is come, and the time of the dead, that they should be judged, and that thou shouldest give reward unto thy servants the prophets, and to the saints, and them that fear thy name, small and great; and shouldest destroy them which destroy the earth.
Revelation 11:18
[7] Who goeth a warfare any time at his own charges? who planteth a vineyard, and eateth not of the fruit thereof? or who feedeth a flock, and eateth not of the milk of the flock? [8] Say I these things as a man? or saith not the law the same also? [9] For it is written in the law of Moses, Thou shalt not muzzle the mouth of the ox that treadeth out the corn. Doth God take care for oxen? [10] Or saith he it altogether for our sakes? For our sakes, no doubt, this is written: that he that ploweth should plow in hope; and that he that thresheth in hope should be partaker of his hope. (1 Corinthians 9:7-10).
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“Of course, God forbid should the power go out for a time and the nuclear energy becomes unstable and has a meltdown, leads to a new ecological disaster.”
EXACTLY Gates intent!
I will be so excited to see, after we’re all caught up, after the Day of the Lord (the sixth seal) and until after the seventh vial, Bill Gates has lost his wealth, his mansions and cars are destroyed, he will take the mark of the beast so that’s no question and bo doubt there – after the first vial, Bill Gates is in severe agony from the noisome and grievous sore on those who took the mark of the beast with painful and unsightly sores all over him and that microchip of the mark is beginning to short circuit and fry. If the first, second, third, fourth, and fifth vials don’t kill Bill Gates, the seventh vial will definitely finish him off!
I can’t wait to see that! Bill Gates in the middle of the seventh vial earthquake and the giant hailstones falling all around him, and Bill Gates looks up at Jesus and says some horrible blasphemies to His face, and Jesus finishes him off either with a giant hailstone crushing his head or he gets swallowed up by the earthquake!
“Of course, God forbid should the power go out for a time and the nuclear energy becomes unstable and has a meltdown, leads to a new ecological disaster.”
If the power goes out, they’ll have huge generators, produced by Billy-club Gates. Whether this diabolical infidel wants to use them or not remains to be seen. Really, what could go wrong? (sarcasm)