Wednesday, March 13, 2013

Safer Nuclear Power, At Half The Price

An MIT spin-off company called Transatomic has designed a molten salt nuclear power reactor that can essentially be fabricated in a factory and brought to the power plant site with construction cost about half of a conventional power reactor.  The downside is that it will necessitate new NRC regulations.  China appears to be ahead of the game with this technology.

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