Name: A Renaissance of nuclear energy is on the way
Uploaded: 2025-10-14T06:29:46.000Z
Duration: 2 min
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The world succeeded in making over 400 nuclear reactors that generate clean electricity.

It is advantageous in that it can generate electricity 24 hours a day.

It doesn't require much land, it doesn't emit greenhouse gases, it can be placed near to where the electricity is needed.

But most plants today are based on designs from half a century ago to make them extremely relia and safe.

The cost of building those reactors got very, very high.

The question that I asked a lot of smart physicist friends around 2000 was, is there a new way to do reactors?

That's the dream that TerraPower was founded to achieve.

A lot of my motivation in creating TerraPower was to have cheap electricity for the entire world, including for the poor countries.

If you don't have electricity, there's a real limit to how much you can develop economically, because until you get the electricity, you don't have the economic growth.

But until you get the economic growth, you can't justify getting the electricity.

TerraPower has built a next generation reactor whose cost and safety is very different than any of the commercial reactors that are in use today.

It's a lot simpler, so the amount of cement we need is way less.

It's less expensive to run a plant, it's a lot safer.

That should allow for a renaissance of nuclear energy and a gigantic contribution to low cost electricity, helping to bring power to the world, meeting the growing demands of data centers and AI and avoiding the problems of climate change.