Atomic Show #319 – Juliann Edwards, The Nuclear Company 1

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  1. Now this sounds like a fantastic and pragmatic plan: “The company has a goal to build an initial fleet of reactors with a capacity of 6 GWe. Those reactors will be built by a consistent team, financed using a structure whose outline will be disclosed in the coming months and using a design that has successfully completed an NRC design certification review AND has been built at least once somewhere in the world.”

    Sign me up.

  2. Hello Rod,

    If you happen to remember a guy with the handle edwlt12@lerc.nasa.gov, that was me – I kinda said I’d help create a demo 2 kW (non-nuclear, ceramic) unit, which I obviously never did. My profuse apologies for that screw-up. I left the NASA contracting scene in 1996.

    However, I do have an idea – any thoughts of using Lithium for fission power? From what I’ve read, Lithium’s about 92% Li7 and 8% Li6. When Li7 gets hit by a neutron it fissions (even if the fusion guys don’t like to call it that) into He4 + T + another neutron – and about 4.5 MeV of energy.

    Ever heard of a *fission* reactor design using Li as fuel? Seems like it’d be inherently safe, since it will require a neutron source. And if that doesn’t pique your interest, check out the price of Tritium…

  3. Come on; these people are all flash, and no substance! Like so many of the “new, advanced nuclear” companies out there, like Nano Nuclear, these are stock plays to make cash on Wall Street and from the govt.

    Did you happen to do any due-diligence and look up the other people involved in this company, like Jonathan Webb, and the disaster that was AppHarvest? Wasted money, wasted potential, and destroyed lives. Why on Earth would anyone think that someone with a track record and rep like that is just the ticket to help nuclear out of the ditch it’s been in for decades?

    There is no THERE there!

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