Earlier today President Trump held a nuclear energy innovation event in the White House and highlighted the next phase of U.S. energy development via small critical nuclear reactors. The media questions begin at 8:44 of the video below.
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These small nuclear reactors will be the next big thing.
Quicker development cycle, faster fabrication with more standardized parts, and a comparatively smaller upfront capital cost than for a larger bespoke design.
There is a lot going for it.
Yes, they should be!
And what about Fusion Reactors?
For 40 years, they have been 10 years away! 🙂
(Much like Brazil, for 60 years, the next “big thing,” the next “superpower” ! 🙂 )
But who knows?
You can find various articles about how “close” we are now: supposedly just a few more years!
All of those experimental fusion reactors funded with taxpayer monies provided a lot of job security and retirements for a bunch of PhDs at big universities though.
Spending a lot of resources to iterate tokamak and stellarator designs that are likely a technological dead end, not the best idea.
Great company to own– SMR– NuScale Power. Only company certified for use in the US. Great place to use them– military bases. Secure, each one can supply power for a city of about 55,000 homes.
Another good place to implement them would be desalination plants especially in California. A lot of the west could use the water and those plants require a lot of energy to run.
Running desalinization at that scale may have fringe benefits in what metals can be extracted from seawater over time as a minor byproduct. Lithium and manganese come to mind here.
New breakthrough nuclear technologies: Common sense and innovation are finally being allowed triumph over ignorance and hysteria.
Russian Federation has nuclear power agreements with ~20 African countries. Rosatom (ie Russia) constructs the plant; then manages the project from conception to decommissioning, including providing the nuclear fuel and taking the waste.
A possible partnership:
The Deal: The US and Russia split the work to dominate Africa’s energy market, deliberately freezing Europe out of the picture.
US Role: Supplies the advanced small reactors and digital control systems. Leverages the recent “criticality” breakthrough (July 2026) to guarantee rapid deployment.
Russian Role: Provides nuclear fuel, waste removal, and site security. Uses existing political influence in nations like Niger and Mali to secure locations and manage long-term operations.
EU Exclusion: Europe is locked out. By using the BRICS New Development Bank (or alternative) and direct sovereign guarantees, the partnership bypasses EU regulations and financing. No European components, fuel, or money are involved.
Thorium-based reactors…….