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Ep 389: Bret van den Akker - Director of Fuel Cycle Innovation, Ultra Safe Nuclear

Titans Of Nuclear | Interviewing World Experts on Nuclear Energy

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The Negative Temperature Reactivity Coefficient of a Nuclear Reactor

The fear that most people have with nuclear reactors is the meltdown scenario, right? And so, as I said before, our fuel being tri-zone and silicon carbide can withstand temperatures in excess of a thousand degrees centigrade. So we could have a complete loss of coolant in the reactor, total ejection of all of our control rods. And the reactor would come down into a safe state.

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