Nuclear Power: Small Modular Reactors (Narration Only)
Science & Futurism with Isaac Arthur
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The Future of Nuclear Energy
Meltdowns happen when the ability to move those plates apart to slower reaction breaks. Breeder reactors let us take a small sample of something fissile and breed a much larger supply of fissile materials from some other material which is otherwise not fissile, or less rare anyway. The thorium-breeder reaction does require a moderator to slow the neutrons down to very hot thermal rather than relativistic speeds to be captured.
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