MIT Alumni Designed Micro-Reactor BURNS Nuclear Waste For Fuel
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OKLO is a Nuclear Startup that wants to decarbonise Remote Locations and Off-grid mining operations.


Their 1.5 MW Nuclear plant would occupy only 5000 Sq Feet, but could provide clean, carbon-free energy to 1000 homes.


And because they use Uranium metal fuel at low burnups, they can recycle the fuel over 50 times. Not just that, their process could be used to create fuel for their reactor using current nuclear waste inventories.


Check them out @    / okloinc  
https://oklo.com/



EDIT:


Oklo reached out to us a clarify a few points:


"Aurora is built pretty much for one thing". There is a lot more to the Aurora than just one thing, including the following:


Oklo is beginning with a plant as small and simple as Aurora to help us prove out our licensing approach, learn from it, improve it, and repeat it. We can then extend that process to future products


We know the first few plants' cost will be competitive in expensive, remote areas. Still, as we build more, we expect plants to be competitive in ever lower-cost markets


Our long-term is to build a wide range of fission power plants, including small and large designs, and designs that are economically competitive with the cheapest forms of power available to humanity


"Fast neutron reactors have historically been more difficult to operate"


Fast reactors are not more difficult to operate. EBR-II is a great example that showed that it can operate successfully for decades. What EBR-II showed was that you get a lot of benefits by making systems smaller and more integral as opposed to having a lot of complex systems. The pool type system, the integral fashion, and the nature of EBR-II were very attractive to us



NOTE: EBR II stands for Experimental Breeder Reactor which used uranium metal as fuel, and is the design basis for Oklo's Aurora.






Fun Fact: We made a 35 minute version of this video. Finally decided we had to cut it down.

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