Yes! Clean Nuclear Power Exists

Next generation nuclear reactors consume nuclear waste

Erik Engheim
6 min readOct 10, 2020
Terrestrial Energy Molten Salt Reactor
Terrestrial Energy Molten Salt Reactor

There are two key oppositions to nuclear power:

  1. It is unsafe. You could have reactor meltdowns spreading nuclear waste wide and far.
  2. They produce nuclear waste we have no clue where to store.

What if there was a way to make both of those problems go away? And I am not talking about Nuclear Fusion which is always 50 years away. No, I am talking about technology which was already proven decades ago in 1965 at Oak Ridge National Laboratory called Molten Salt Reactors (MSR).

Highly toxic radioactive waste goes in, and out comes tons of cheap energy

Commercial versions of these reactors are already being developed by multiple companies, one example being UK based Moltex Energy making a Molten Salt Reactor they call the SSR-W. But there are many other companies making Molten Salt Reactors such as Seaborg, and Terrestrial Energy.

Both companies are making reactors which will almost literally run on garbage. Highly toxic radioactive waste goes in, and out comes tons of cheap energy and significantly less dangerous waste, which can easily be disposed. Oh and for the pedantics out there, Energy is obviously…

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Erik Engheim

Geek dad, living in Oslo, Norway with passion for UX, Julia programming, science, teaching, reading and writing.