Reactor
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Now in fission, you take a big nucleus, you break it in part, in two, and it makes lots of energy, and this is how the nuclear
reactor
today works.
I wanted to know what was going on with the reactor, what was going on with the radiation, whether my family was in danger.
So we created our first collaboration, and the moment when we combined the electrical stimulation of Mark's spinal cord, as he walked in his robotic exoskeleton, was like that moment when Iron Man plugs the mini arc
reactor
into his chest and suddenly he and his suit become something else altogether.
On the right-hand side, we've taken that same piece of coral, put it in a nuclear reactor, induced fission, and every time there's some decay, you can see that marked out in the coral, so we can see the uranium distribution.
Bill Gates is in China working with engineers, there's 40 different companies that are working together to try to race to build the first
reactor
that runs on waste, that can't melt down and is cheaper than coal.
In particular, the thorium
reactor
shows a lot of promise.
The time came for the thorium reactor, and a bunch of us were excited.
They went through the whole presentation, they got to the timeline, and they said, "We're going to have a thorium molten salt
reactor
ready for sale to the world by 2040."
You know how you've got 10 years where you're demonstrating that
reactor?
There's a
reactor
that's coming online now, they're starting to sell it.
It's a high-temperature gas
reactor.
So, our
reactor
eliminates these steps, which, if we can actually make it work, is a really cool thing.
Now, it's kind of nuts to work on a new nuclear
reactor.
So, this is my latest cooker, and if this looks more complicated than the nuclear reactor, that's because it is.
It's about the same radiation environment close by Jupiter as inside a nuclear
reactor.
So just imagine: you take your P.C. and throw it into a nuclear
reactor
and it still has to work.
So I went to Fukushima, Japan on the sixth anniversary of the nuclear
reactor
disaster there that followed the Tohoku earthquake and tsunami of 2011.
If we could do that, we'd automatically have an energy supply, because this transmutation would be a fusion
reactor.
Just minor things like the ignition exploding, the
reactor
leaking, or the oxygen levels depleting— any of which would end your racing career immediately.
Shortly after the Fuel gauge glows and the Gravitometer spins, the
Reactor
leaks.
So we can conclude that a glowing Fuel gauge makes the
reactor
leak, while a rattling Helium tank makes the Ignition explode and depletes the Oxygen levels.
And with current
reactor
technology we really don't have very much uranium.
We've got to take that, we've got to make that into a fusion
reactor.
You see it's a log there, often referred to as a traveling wave
reactor.
And even once we test our materials out in a Russian
reactor
to make sure our materials work properly, then you'll only be up in the hundreds of millions.
It's an important advance, but it's like a fast reactor, and a lot of countries have built them, so anybody who's done a fast
reactor
is a candidate to be where the first one gets built.
There's a liquid-type reactor, which seems a little hard, but maybe they say that about us.
The nuclear waste typically goes into a dry cask storage out back of the parking lot at the
reactor
site because most places don't have underground storage yet.
Babcock & Wilcox that make nuclear reactors, here's an integral fast
reactor.
Thorium
reactor
that Nathan Myhrvold's involved in.
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