Talk:TerraPower/Archive 1

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The article should link to Traveling Wave Reactors, not simply small nuclear reactors. I believe that is TerraPower's specific focus.
 * Thanks for the suggestion. I have changed the article accordingly. Grundle2600 (talk) 18:50, 23 March 2010 (UTC)

"can operate continuously for 30 years without fuel handlings and generates 10,000 kilo-watts"
'handlings' should be changed to 'handling' and the information should be verified - does the device generates 10 mega watts (equal to 10000kW) continuously for 30 years, or 10 kilo-watts, or 10 000 kWh in total? 10,000 kilo-watts is more than four big wind turbines can generate together. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 109.175.139.37 (talk) 09:49, 12 December 2011 (UTC)

External links modified
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Approved to build a power plant in the U.S.?
Has TerraPower been approved to build its first power plant in the U.S.? 173.88.246.138 (talk) 00:34, 15 February 2021 (UTC)

To add to article
To add to this article: a discussion of the waste that would be generated by such power plants. A discussion of the Santa Susana accident in 1959, a sodium cooled reactor that released 400 times the radiation to the environment than was released at 3 Mile Island. A discussion of the "negative void coefficient" inherent to sodium cooled reactors, that, worst case, can cause nuclear explosions of this reactor type. A discussion of why sodium cooled reactors have been abandoned since the late 1950s, and how some of the problems can be mitigated. 173.88.246.138 (talk) 00:32, 15 February 2021 (UTC)98.184.200.177 (talk) 20:49, 16 January 2022 (UTC)

Efficiency In The Long Run - Just HOW LONG?
The article claims that a sodium cooled reactor makes more efficient use of uranium in the long run. Yet it requires more highly enriched fuel than other reactors, and enrichment is a very energy intensive process. So it is going to take a very long time before the energy produced justifies the energy expended in enrichment. Just how long a run are we talking here?98.184.200.177 (talk) 21:44, 17 January 2022 (UTC)