Tuesday, November 18, 2014

Carnival of Nuclear Energy 234

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The Carnival of Nuclear Energy 234 is up at Neutron Bytes



Atomic Insights - Transatomic Power – Anatomy of Next



Dr. Leslie Dewan is a co-founder and the CEO of Transatomic Power, a venture capital-funded start-up based on research conducted at MIT. Along with Mark Massie, the other co-founder, Dewan is exploring a design that uses a molten salt fuel that enables materials currently classified as “nuclear waste” to provide the heat source for a steam power plant. As the company’s web site explains, the design requires fuel where fissile isotopes (U-235 or Pu-239) make up 1.8% of the total actinide fraction.



Here is the white paper on Transatomic power












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