Radiant microreactor contains 120 million poppy seed-sized ceramic fuel kernels
Doug Bernauer · Radiant CEO Doug Bernauer on Portable Nuclear Microreactors & the Future of Clean Energy · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea · May 31, 2024 · at 11:34
Doug Bernauer, founder and CEO of Radiant, details the physical dimensions and fuel specifications of Radiant's portable nuclear microreactor.
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“What we're doing is these tiny poppy seed size kernels of fuel. There are about a hundred and twenty million of them. For a hundred kilograms of uranium and this is all in a core that's, you know, only four feet in diameter.”
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