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3h08m32s15f Dr. Leslie Dewan - Transatomic Power - NRC Regulation - Cavan Stone - TR2016a

http://ThoriumRemix.com/ [Dr.] Leslie Dewan is co-founder and Chief Science Officer of Transatomic Power. She's one of Time's "30 People Under 30 Changing the World". And so you and a friend- Mark Massey. Right after we finished our qualifying exams we figured that this was the smartest we were going to be for a while. Mark and I started thinking very broadly just about nuclear reactors in general. So we looked at the 6 types of Gen4 reactors. We got our inspiration by looking at the Moment Salt Reactor. Our fuel is a liquid. We can leave it in a reactor for as long as it takes to extract essentially all of the remaining energy in it. The commercial regulatory structure in the U.S. is currently set up only for Light Water Reactors. The uncertainty in the estimates of the cost and timeline effectively block large-scale private investment in new nuclear reactors- Because no- no investor would want to put money into a project if they don't have a good sense of when they're going to get a return, or how much it will cost at the beginning. Cavan Stone: The NRC regulations specifically spell out prohibitions against fluid fueled reactors, even for national laboratories. You can not operate fluid-filled reactor more than one megawatt without expensive licensing process running about $150 per man-hour. The NRC trusts sophomores in college more with Light Water Reactors than they do national lab scientists with fluid fuel reactors.