Natrium, Coal Gasification, and Synfuels, Oh My!
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English - January 09, 2023 21:50 - 1 hour - 60.5 MBPolitics News Homepage Download Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
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Cal Abel, CTO of Signal Power and Light, discusses the engineering behind the sodium-cooled fast reactor Natrium, and argues for their centrality in the U.S. coal to nuclear transition, as their high temperatures could be used for the dual production of electricity and synthetic fuels from the gasification of coal.