Live Pod with David Landon, CEO, moltexFLEX on ‘Nuclear innovations: moltex and moltexFLEX reactors in Africa'’

AfriNuke Podcast by Afrinuke Podcast

Episode notes
  • The technology can be deployed in a range of places
  • moltexFLEX is designed for clean energy in a flexible manner beyond baseload to provide demand following capability
  • What has prevented molten salt reactors from being deployed mainstream for this long?
  • Nuclear is very safe, more people died from mining in south Africa than from Fukushima accident
  • At High temperatures, molten salt looks like water and it freezes quickly when in contact with a cold surface
  • moltexFLEX originally intended for ships is low cost and competitive with fossil fuels: £30m for 60M built within 2 years to scale; powering average 40million UK homes
  • To achieve net zero by 2050 we need 1.8GW of energy everyday
  • The nuclear industry has been too much focused on safety compared to aero industry, we need to focus on the  ... 
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