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Transatomic Power Inc. - Safer, Cleaner, Cheaper Atomic Energy (futureenergy.ultralightstartups.com)
2 points by atomatica 4886 days ago
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I'm not sure what's the differentiating factor about this company. They give no information about the company, even on their homepage. How can they manage to employ everyone on the team page without a product to sell? Do they have investors? It certainly seems they have the technical credentials, including metallurgy (the main problem IMO). What's their plan to be approved by the NRC? Or are they trying to sell directly to the military (which doesn't need NRC approval)? And the biggest issue - "In our reactor these byproducts are removed or converted". How? After studying this process intently independently, separation of the waste stream is the hardest thing to do cheaply (unless you use a storage tank to wait until Xe gas is created, and take that out).

I'm sorry for all the questions. I would love to work at this company, and I plan to work in this field eventually. I definitely believe salt based reactors are the way forward due to their passive fail safe technologies. But they need to address the problems in a concrete manner - there are a lot of naysayers out there. If they acknowledge and discuss, even vaguely, the materials used and the separation of the products, I will have much greater confidence in this company.

Also, check out FLiBe that does almost the same thing.