Nuclear Fission
topic on 8 shows · 11 statements across 9 episodes
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11 statements about Nuclear Fission, every show
Taylor: Valar Atomics Will Scale Fission to Make Energy 10x Cheaper
“We have nuclear reactors that are more manufactured than constructed and they're extremely safe. And we think the combination of these two things is going to allow us to scale nuclear fission and make energy 10 times cheaper for humanity.”
Taylor: Nuclear Fission Will Make Energy 1,000 Times Cheaper
“I know that nuclear fission will make energy a thousand times cheaper than it is today. Somebody will do that.”
Musk: Nuclear fission is safe, as proven by US Navy submarines
“And, but Fission is actually very safe. They obviously have this on you know, the Navy, US Navy has this on submarines and aircraft carriers, and with people really walking right, I mean, a submarine's a pretty crowded place, and they have a nuclear-powered su…”
Langtry: Fission will scale to gigawatts while fusion dominates kilowatt-to-megawatt range
“I think my personal belief is that fission is going to go bigger, like hundreds of megawatts to gigawatts, and fusion is going to be really great from the kilowatts to a few megawatts.”
Gerstner: France Out-Innovating the US in Nuclear Fission Is a National Embarrassment
“The French are driving more innovation and more efficiency out of nuclear fission than the United States, and we pride ourselves on innovation. That should be a shock and a national embarrassment.”
Andreessen: Nuclear fission is the most underrated energy source
“Oh, I mean, nuclear fission for sure is the most underrated today.”
Andreessen: Opponents of nuclear fission will immediately block nuclear fusion deployment
“I think what's going to happen is I look, I think we'll get fusion to work at some point. There's very smart people working on it. I think they'll get it there. I think the same forces and ideas and people that have prevented the deployment of nuclear fission …”
Araque: Only fission, fusion, and deep geothermal can scale to humanity's needs
“So when you look at that, I think there's only three things that can do it. The first one is indeed nuclear fission. As you just mentioned, it has the scalability and the power density to do it. The second one is fusion, which is what the sun does, but it's st…”
Kann: Nuclear fission struggles on learning curves because it is an engineered project
“I think that's where things like nuclear fission have struggled in the past. It's not really a manufactured technology. It's an engineered project. And it's tougher to get the kind of learning rates with stuff like that.”
DeWitte: Nuclear Fission Releases 50M Times More Energy Than Fossil Combustion
“When you split an atom, it releases about fifty million times more energy than when you combust, for example, a fossil fuel.”