Meyer: Natrium reactor planned for Kemmerer ‘redefines nuclear energy’
kemmerergazette.com
LYMAN — The Uinta County Economic Development Commission (UCEDC) meeting was held at the Lyman Town Hall on Wednesday, July 26, at 3 p.m. Two main topics — a proposed Wyoming shooting complex and an update on the TerraPower Natrium nuclear reactor in Kemmerer — dominated the two-hourlong meeting. Wyoming Energy Futures CEO Rita Meyer, representing TerraPower, provided an update on the progress of the nuclear reactor facility. Meyer, a Rocky Mountain Power retiree, was recruited to represent TerraPower in Lincoln County.

Is Wyoming really going to be the first state with a molten salt reactor? Whodathunkit??

I love that Wymoing brings good news in these times.

  • Diplomjodler@feddit.de
    43·
    1 year ago

    Maybe you should have read the article. This is a research facility. They built a couple of those in Germany a few decades ago but they never managed to bring the technology to maturity. There is nothing to suggest it will be different this time.

    • Kata1yst@kbin.social
      51·
      1 year ago

      How can you possibly say “Nothing has changed”? Material Science has come so far in the last 5 years, let alone the past 30 years, that I’m certain the problems experienced by other efforts will be quickly addressed

      Now whether or not that means this design will be immediately commercially viable is an entirely different issue, but we can’t advance forward without doing research to find out.

      • Diplomjodler@feddit.de
        33·
        1 year ago

        That’s not what I said. I said there have been no fundamental breakthroughs that would indicate things will go different this time.

    • lntlOP
      32·
      1 year ago

      Yikes, you sound combative. I’m excited about the facility. Who cares that research will also be done there?

        • lntlOP
          22·
          1 year ago

          I’m excited about this project, you do you lemon.