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Going Deep on the Energy Crisis and Nuclear Power with Mark Nelson (Part 2 of 2) 🔌⚡️💡

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Can-Do, the Canadian Deuterium Uranium Reactor

Some of the designs are not ones I would gravitate towards as an engineer, but if enough people get behind them then you can move forward. Maybe we'll have the nuclear equivalent of the reusable launching rockets that Elon Musk and his team at SpaceX have developed. One of the reactors that I think is most fascinating is also one of the very oldest reactor designs. And that is the Canadian deuterium uranium reactor. It's a series of small tubes, about this big, what, seven or eight inches called calandria tubes. These have pressurized water running through them, taking away heat from fuel.

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