Bill Gates' nuclear power plant stalled by Russian fuel holdup
The DoE's own projections indicate more than 40 metric tons of HALEU will be needed before the end of the decade, but ACO is a long way short of that goal: the biz plans to demonstrate its capabilities by producing 20 kilograms of HALEU in 2023.
After that, the DoE said ACO would produce 900 kilograms per year. At that rate it would take more than 40 years to produce the amount of fuel the DoE said is needed this decade, though the department said it's pursuing multiple paths to produce the HALEU the US nuclear industry needs. Frankly, for a country that came up with the Manhattan Project in the 1940s, this shouldn't be impossible.
In the meantime, TerraPower expressed hope the US government would recycle highly enriched, weapons-grade uranium downblended from nuclear warheads. According to Navin, the Feds"don't have the capacity to disassemble a large volume of warheads any faster than they're already disassembling them," and as such won't be able to meet the reactor's energy needs.
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