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Now the really interesting thing about these reactors is they're built in a factory.

So they're modular reactors that are built essentially on an assembly line, and they're trucked anywhere in the world, you plop them down, and they produce electricity.

And inside this reactor is a molten salt, so anybody who's a fan of thorium, they're going to be really excited about this, because these reactors happen to be really good at breeding and burning the thorium fuel cycle, uranium-233.

And the reason the efficiencies are so low is these reactors operate at pretty low temperature.

And these reactors run at 600 to 700 degrees Celsius, which means the higher the temperature you go to, thermodynamics tells you that you will have higher efficiencies.

Molten salt reactors are very compact by nature, but what's also great is you get a lot more electricity out for how much uranium you're fissioning, not to mention the fact that these burn up.

And they eat them up, which means that, combined with the fact that the cladding doesn't last very long, you can only run one of these reactors for roughly, say, 18 months without refueling it.

So these reactors run for 30 years without refueling, which is, in my opinion, very, very amazing, because it means it's a sealed system.

So traditional reactors like a pressurized water reactor or boiling water reactor, they're very, very hot water at very high pressures, and this means, essentially, in the event of an accident, if you had any kind of breach of this stainless steel pressure vessel, the coolant would leave the core.

These reactors operate at essentially atmospheric pressure, so there's no inclination for the fission products to leave the reactor in the event of an accident.

Everybody was really excited about Curiosity, and that had this big plutonium battery on board that has plutonium-238, which actually has a higher specific activity than the low-enriched uranium fuel of these molten salt reactors, which means that the effects would be negligible, because you launch it cold, and when it gets into space is where you actually activate this reactor.

But I think there's something really poetic about using nuclear power to propel us to the stars, because the stars are giant fusion reactors.

I was looking at the news streams and listening to the press conferences of the government officials and the Tokyo Power Company, and hearing about this explosion at the nuclear reactors and this cloud of fallout that was headed towards our house which was only about 200 kilometers away.

I've based my scientific career on using leading-edge molecular techniques, DNA- and RNA-based methods to look at microbial populations in biological reactors, and again to optimize these systems.

That's why Bill Gates is in China developing advanced reactors.

The presentations were all very exciting and very promising; they have multiple reactors that they're working on.

And they responded back, they were like, "I'm not sure what you've heard about our thorium program, but we don't have a third of our budget, and your department of energy hasn't been particularly forthcoming with all that data you guys have on testing reactors."

So what about the other reactors?

But it's really big and bulky, that's part of the safety, and nobody thinks it's going to ever get cheaper than the reactors that we have.

And in most of the world, especially the rich world, they're not talking about building new reactors.

We're actually talking about taking reactors down before their lifetimes are over.

We have not used our latest scientific thinking on radiological health to think how we communicate with the public and govern the testing of new nuclear reactors.

In fact, I design nuclear reactors.

The red line is what is done in most nuclear reactors.

Humanity was buying everything from crude oil to nuclear reactors.

You need ultracentrifuges, you need reactors, like, massive amounts of energy.

Well the good news is that the developing world, but frankly, the whole world, is busy building, and starting to build, nuclear reactors.

The Russians, who started this, are building floating reactors, for their new passage, where the ice is melting, north of Russia.

And they're selling these floating reactors, only 35 megawatts, to developing countries.

You actually burn up the waste, and you can actually use as fuel all the leftover waste from today's reactors.

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