Microreactors
topic on 4 shows · 6 statements across 5 episodes
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Catalyst 
the Green Blueprint 
the a16z Podcast
6 statements about Microreactors, every show
Bernauer: Deployable and retrievable nuclear reactors require sizing around 1 MW
“It's only possible if you make a size about one megawatt, right? Make a small enough reactor, you can do this, transport it there and back again sort of trick, and take the fuel back, and so you have, like, no nuclear strings attached.”
Microreactors make zero economic sense without scaled factory manufacturing
“Microreactors in particular do not make sense economically until you're building them in a factory with a plan for shipping those reactors fueled and receiving those reactors, defueling them, those sorts of things.”
DeWahl: Antares is building sub-megawatt nuclear micro-reactors
“The really small ones are the micro-reactors, and we're actually one of the smallest of those, so we're even sub one megawatt, we're kind of in the hundreds of kilowatt scale, you can think of that as like hundreds of houses worth of electricity.”
DeWahl: No nuclear micro-reactors are commercially available today
“Well, the market for micro-reactors is one of these ones where it's like, well, there are no micro-reactors today on the market to just like buy and use.”
Ulevitch: Radiant Nuclear's 1-megawatt micro-reactor fits on an 18-wheeler truck
“It's a one megawatt reactor. It can be put on the back of an eighteen-wheeler and shipped around.”