Energy Department teams up with Bill Gates to move mini-nuclear plants to market

Re:Energy Department teams up with Bill Gates to move mini-n... by yazr on Saturday August 25, 2018 @07:28PM (#17843154)

Here is the DoE press release

This is a new sodium liquid fuel design.

It is NOT the travelling wave reactor, which has been championed by TerraPower for the past 10 years.

These are 2 very very different designs which is confusing to me.

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Re:Energy Department teams up with Bill Gates to move mini-n... by jabl on Sunday August 26, 2018 @03:07AM (#17844699)

From their website, it seems work on the traveling wave concept wound down several years ago (not spelled out explicitly, but lack of updates).

I'd guess they figured out the traveling wave concept wasn't workable, and switched to another design.

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Re:Energy Department teams up with Bill Gates to move mini-n... by DennisP on Monday August 27, 2018 @11:49AM (#17852168)

As of last fall, they've partnered with someone in China to build a traveling wave reactor there.

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Re:Energy Department teams up with Bill Gates to move mini-n... by donttrustatoms on Monday August 27, 2018 @02:01AM (#17849708)

The link clearly states that this is the MCFR - Molten Chloride Fast Reactor.

I think the confusion may lie in that people equate fast reactor with sodium. It's a fast MSR.

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Re:Energy Department teams up with Bill Gates to move mini-n... by loeg on Saturday August 25, 2018 @08:12PM (#17843377)

The submitted article seems to be mostly cribbed from the DoE's tweet; this link is much better.

dang or sctb, could you update the link to the energy.gov one?

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