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by credit_guy
763 days ago
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> giving us literally billions of years of current-day whole-earth power from known uranium resources (including seawater and erosion) It's not like it was a one-time chance that we missed, and we'll never get back. The technology still exists, it is even in production. Russia has 2 reactors running as of now, BN-600 and BN-800. The first has been running for more than 4 decades, the other for 8 years. A BN-1200 design has been recently approved for construction, and Russia plans to make many of them. In the US, there's the Terrapower company that has started the approval process with the Nuclear Regulatory Commission for its sodium-cooled reactor, Natrium [2]. These things take years, but my guess is that in the worst case scenario, they'll still be able to build a reactor by 2040. [1] https://world-nuclear-news.org/Articles/BN-1200-plans-for-Be... [2] https://www.terrapower.com/terrapower-submits-cpa-nrc/ |
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