I chose to contact and research an extremely interesting concept called
TerraPower, which I blogged about before
This
is a project from
Intellectual Ventures
which I am supprised not many people have heard of. They are developing
technology that would literally revolutionise the way we get our
electrical energy
one of their facinating projects is called
Terrapower,
and looks at
using nuclear waste as an energy source. This works
by getting a small amount of enriched uranium, and starting a chain
reaction within the waste. The nuclear waste then changes form, and
releases it's stored potential energy, and then continues the reaction.
The controlled reaction can make electricity for
60 YEARS
before it needs replacing. Not only that, the cores can basically be
left to do their thing after its started.
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