Two Massachusetts Institute of
Technology doctoral candidates are designing a nuclear power plant that
would convert nuclear waste from conventional reactors into electricity —
a plant you could walk away from, they said, without the risk of a
radioactive leak like the meltdown last year that crippled parts of
Japan.
Leslie Dewan and Mark Massie, co-founders of Transatomic Power, have
developed the WAMSR, or Waste-Annihilating Molten Salt Reactor, a 400-
to 500-megawatt plant that would convert high-level nuclear waste into
electric power, at a price competitive with fossil fuels.
“About two years ago, we got really excited about nuclear power
because we saw so much potential in the industry to improve the design
of reactors and stretch the limits of the technology,” said Dewan, 27.
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