Did somebody say “small modular, molten fuel salt, thorium fuel cycle, thermal spectrum, breeder reactors”? Well, guess what? Somebody said it. And maybe it’s happening soon! So, what does that mean? Good question! Today on Solutions Watch, James talks to Thomas Pedersen of Copenhagen Atomics about their next gen small modular reactors and how independent communities of the future will be powered.
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Hi James & Shaun! Very well done—an informative video, as per usual. Many thanks. The SMR concept certainly appears to hold some very exciting possibilities, and I intend to research the topic with gusto.
I like the idea of small decentralized power plants that power individual communities. I have seen a number of community owned hydro-power plants that provide local power independent of the grid, however few communities have this option.
These small Thorium power plants would allow independent power to nearly any location.
As I see it, Thorium Salt Reactors have been proven to work has far back as the 1960’s in Oak-Ridge Tennessee, however the U.S. government kind of put a lid on it. This time around if China is going to make these small Thorium reactors available to the rest of the world, the U.S. will be left behind, and it will serve them right.
For it is Energy that is more useful than gold, and Data centers, computers, and the like can not run without it.
Who is Bill Gates?
That was a smooth segue at the end of this #SolutionsWatch.
“Who is Bill Gates?” is an incredible piece of work!…and it debuted when the world was upside down, an era in which now seems like an ancient bad dream.