China is the leading manufacture of conventional and advanced reactors. They also produce more TRISO fuel than the rest of the world combined. We have to do better. We're doing our part to re-industrialize 🇺🇸 starting with our TRISO nuclear fuel factory.

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Turbine blades, casting molds, nuclear fuel, drill bits, semiconductors, battery electrodes. What do they all in common? . Silicon Carbide.

We sort millions, and soon billions, of these sesame sized nuclear TRISO particles.

Megawatt-class fission power systems can provide the energy for key architecture building blocks, such as propellant production, growing food, and in-space manufacturing that are not easily provided by solar on the megawatt level.

We want to travel further and faster, grow and expand, live longer and better. Energy is the ultimate constraint on our human ambitions. We are loosening that constraint with advanced nuclear reactors and fuels providing zero-carbon power and heat.

Bouncing UO2 particles around inside a hot furnace. This is how we coat 10s of micron thick layers of ceramics on our TRISO particles.

Fission power holds great promise for providing the 24/7 Megawatt-class power needed for humanity to live, work in orbit, and the lunar surface.

Solar panels have been the backbone for space power. But if you want a lot more power, fission becomes extremely compelling. It's lighter, it scales better, and it doesn't matter how far from the sun you are.

for producing tritium for thermonuclear weapons, and the Soviet Union and Germany are planning to build such a reactor at the Lenin Research Institute for Atomic Reactors in Dimitrovgrad. – Alvin Weinberg.

The modular HTGR (modHTGR) must therefore be regarded as inherently safe against such major challenges as those that caused the dramatic damage at TMI-2 and at Chernobyl. At the time of this writing, mod-HTGR is being considered by the Department of Energy as one of the reactors.

By virtue of its very high ratio of surface to volume and its low power density, the reactor can dissipate all afterheat passively to its surroundings without exceeding the temperature at which the microspheres release fission products.

The reactor is shaped like an elongated cylinder and produces only about 250 megawatts of heat.

This reactor is a more-or-less conventional helium-cooled, graphite-moderated reactor, in which the fuel elements are microspheres of uranium dioxide coated with essentially impervious layers of silicon carbide and pyrolytic graphite.

The modular High Temperature Gas-Cooled Reactor (HTGR), first proposed by Reutler and Lohnert, represents another approach to passive, if not inherent, safety.

We can make basically any object you want out of refractory ceramics. Topologically optimized heat exchangers? High temperature extremely corrosion resistant components? Casting cores and molds? Precision turbine parts?

Establishing permanence beyond low earth orbit will be greatly enabled by megawatt-class fission systems.

Megawatt-class fission power systems can provide the energy for key architecture building blocks, such as propellant production, growing food, and in-space manufacturing that are not easily provided by solar on the megawatt level.

Had this principle been observed at Bhopal, the tragedy there would have been averted; the storage vessel that exploded contained around 15 tons of methyl isocyanate (MIC). – from Alvin Weinberg's Engineering in an Age of Anxiety.

Kletz used common sense in his approach to inherent safety in chemical plants. A primary principle was, Never allow large accumulations of very toxic materials.

Each of these process changes reduced to zero the risk of disaster from a particular accident sequence-but of course they did not eliminate all fires in houses, all airship disasters, or all deaths from overdoses of anesthetics.