Unfortunately, the article is quite long and not very well written.
"Among carbon-free power sources, only nuclear fission reactors have a track record of providing high levels of power, consistently and reliably, independent of weather and regardless of location. ... Now, a significant fraction of the world’s 447 operable power reactors are showing their age and shortcomings, and after the Fukushima Daiichi disaster in Japan seven years ago, nuclear energy is in a precarious position. Between 2005 and 2015, the world share of nuclear in energy consumption fell from 5.73 to 4.44 percent. ... The breed-and-burn concept languished until Edward Teller, the driving force behind the hydrogen bomb, and astrophysicist Lowell Wood revived it in the 1990s. ... Sodium-cooled nuclear reactors have a history of lackluster performance, but TerraPower believes it can build one that will work."
TerraPower’s Nuclear Reactor Could Power the 21st Century - IEEE Spectrum The traveling-wave reactor and other advanced reactor designs could solve our fossil fuel dependency
"Among carbon-free power sources, only nuclear fission reactors have a track record of providing high levels of power, consistently and reliably, independent of weather and regardless of location. ... Now, a significant fraction of the world’s 447 operable power reactors are showing their age and shortcomings, and after the Fukushima Daiichi disaster in Japan seven years ago, nuclear energy is in a precarious position. Between 2005 and 2015, the world share of nuclear in energy consumption fell from 5.73 to 4.44 percent. ... The breed-and-burn concept languished until Edward Teller, the driving force behind the hydrogen bomb, and astrophysicist Lowell Wood revived it in the 1990s. ... Sodium-cooled nuclear reactors have a history of lackluster performance, but TerraPower believes it can build one that will work."
TerraPower’s Nuclear Reactor Could Power the 21st Century - IEEE Spectrum The traveling-wave reactor and other advanced reactor designs could solve our fossil fuel dependency
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