We Need This

Sodium-cooled fast reactors

Nuclear power has the potential to provide almost unlimited energy at very low cost with a very low carbon footprint. It faces 3 significant problems: safety concerns, waste concerns and regulatory delays and hurdles.

Today there exists a technology that is just starting to be implemented that eliminates the safety concerns and the waste problem.

Sodium-cooled fast reactors can burn 99.7% of the nuclear fuel and the waste that results decays in 300 years as opposed to the 10,000 years that typical nuclear fuel waste takes to decay.

Sodium-cooled fast reactors can’t blow up and even in the most imaginable and impossible disaster/failure would only end up with a mass of radioactive material that could ultimately fuel a sodium-cooled fast reactor.

Sodium-cooled fast reactors could be combined with metallurgical fuel reprocessing to essentially eliminate the proliferation risk.

The historical regulatory delays still have to be greatly reduced and this can only happen with public and government support.

https://www.energy.gov/sites/default/files/2024-05/final-ea-2217-tff-05-16-2024.pdf

https://www.gevernova.com/content/dam/gevernova-nuclear/global/en_us/documents/prism-technical-paper.pdf