Comments by "David Elliott" (@davidelliott5843) on "Forget Small ... What About Micro Nuclear Energy?" video.

  1. The Moltex fast reactor is fuelled by tubes containing the fissile materials as salts diluted by chloride (common salt). It’s cooled with the same salt species minus the fuel. There is no molten metal, no moderator and no pressure in the core. They are fuelled by the nuclear waste we otherwise struggle to deal with. The issues are entirely regulatory. USA regs are built for PWR. Anything else literally can’t tick the boxes so can’t get certified. U.K. regs are deliberately opaque and slow so nothing gets done. Canada is working with Moltex hoping to be on the grid by 2030. It will be fuelled with fuel waste taken from a nearby CANDU plant. There is a long list of reasons why this system should be encouraged but (as ever) nobody wants to talk about nuclear.
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