Copenhagen Atomics first reactor images

[@micheleploeser7720]

I just Saw your presentation on TED, 7/9/2022. Wow, glad to see you are still developing this technology. Make it happen.

[@benjaminlehmann]

I love your work. Inspirational and transformative.

[@CopenhagenAtomics]

Thank you so much!

[@PaulHigginbothamSr]

I really like your reactor design philosophy. A tank just off the reactor outlet salt to boil off the xenon gas for stable reactor output into an aftercooler to power a super critical co2 turbine for incredibly small 100 megawatt output. Almost as small as a megawatt diesel genset. Then all thats needed is a 5ft thick concrete barrier at the work site for radiation damping with easy access to a waldo crane to change failed pumps and or valves. Using pressurized water reactors waste fuel as the fission source for the molten salt in a fast reactor with a blanket of thorium fuel to attenuate any neutrons before the concrete barrier. The fuel before rentering the reactor sparged with flouride salt to remove uranium and protactinium as a fuel replenishment exercise. The protactinium being tanked to decay to uranium. All other fission products kept in the salt.

[@Nicknater]

Ngl, this is REALLY cool, if this can be scaled up, it could be game-changing.

[@propatria6382]

It can; it comes in a 40 ft shippingcontainer sized module and can be connected on demand ;)

[@PhilKingstonByron]

Looks fantastic - Well Done. Keep Going!

[@Jakob_Nybo]

Great video with valuable of information - not new but video gives an additional element. Wishing @Copenhagen Atomics luck and good progress. Looking forward to more videos

[@kermitface4602]

This seems to good to be true. Can it actually be done? If so then your work is absolutly amazing! Good luck.

[@raneilalonzo]

If you’re looking for a country as a test location for your reactor you may want to contact the Philippine government as their electric-generation capacity is woefully inadequate. They may be open to your technology as a viable solution to their problem.

[@CopenhagenAtomics]

Please wirte us directly on [e-mail], with connections and who to contact in the Philippines.

[@gerritcoetzee9075]

ADECSA - Atomic Deproliferation Energy Consortium of South Africa 🇿🇦 has invited Copenhagen Atomics (C.A.) to join in and use SA as testing facility. Hopefully C.A. will react to the invitation and initiate the process. Communication is key as reliability and trust is build on communications. Hopefully Thomas Steenbeck will step in and take up the slack.

[@MarbRedFred]

Kinda a non regulated and sketchy part of the world. Sorry but I’d be shocked if any reputable companies would take advantage of doing testing there

[@gerritcoetzee9075]

@MarbRedFred : Non regulated😒 ? Rather over regulated. Can't put a finger on nuclear stuff without DNA analysis 😑. Sketchy !? More than what, America!? Your sentiment might be wrong vernacular, but not totally misplaced. But don't forget, it is the US, Europe, and England who bestowed this corrupt government/s here; Which you are part of. Don't blame me for your country's mistakes though. Rather try and fix it. We are.

[@Mrbobinge]

​@@gerritcoetzee9075 Oh dear, Gerri. Should EU peoples also call on the awful Romans to remove those nasty filthy stone roads and viaducts. Amphitheatres baths plumbing and other distortions 'bestowed' on their primitive cultures.

[@Al3xki]

Wishing you every success with this demonstration!

[@CopenhagenAtomics]

Thanks

[@croftegan7993]

LOVE THIS!!

[@EricOfBodomMan]

I remember watching the Ted Talk from Thomas back in 2016, very cool to see the progression!

[@CopenhagenAtomics]

Glad to hear you are still following. We hope to show you much more progression

[@andershansen4884]

Lets go!

[@CopenhagenAtomics]

Yes! Full steam ahead.

[@petersaxkjaer6010]

So interesting - Really hope it will work out !

[@JoshuaRPearce_]

Inspiring stuff, keep up the good work!

[@CopenhagenAtomics]

Appreciate it!

[@Mrbobinge]

So Thomas, you're gonna have to get into the mining business to extract all that 'buried' spent fuel. Then the next generation will need to mine all *your* 'spent' fuel. Win win.

[@watchthe1369]

the 1950's science fiction "Reactor buried under the house" I kept reading about when I was 12 years old. Denmark now has it's Nokia moment.

[@rtqii]

Yep, I remember this well. Your home would be supplied with all the energy you needed from a nuclear thermopile, and your car would run on the same technology and never need to be refueled for the lifetime of the vehicle.

[@Ludifant]

Too bad we didn´t get to make the animation, timing wasn´t right for me. But I hope you will get world coverage with this.

[@BloxyCos]

I saw an advertisement video of this company on a youtube video, and im so amazed

[@gorgeousguerilla]

keep going!!!

[@CopenhagenAtomics]

We will! For the rest of our lives.

[@BruceConsidine]

I hope those who say they like the idea, but it'll take to long to develop, will see this. If "western" governments were like they were 60 - 100 years ago, there would already be a handful of test reactors, fueled and running.

[@CopenhagenAtomics]

> "western" governments were like they were 60 - 100 years ago - > YES! let's get back to that again. We were inspired by the apollo program, MSRE and many other reactors from that time, the manhatten project, SpaceX, Tesla, MAN Diesel & Turbo, Apple, Google, etc. Dream big and just do it! Embrace math and science.

[@Buster-cv4zk]

They did, but that was a dead end, cause u cant inrich uranium in these reactors, therefor, No funding

[@eskapadela]

👍👍

[@mervinmarias9283]

Big question is, have they sorted out the containment material to handle all of the heat and corrosion that will be taking place? From what I understand that is the main thing holding MSR's back.

[@CopenhagenAtomics]

We have addressed this issue through our method of purifying the salts. We can purify these salts to such an extent that corrosion occurs at such a low rate that it is not a concern, even for stainless steel.

[@rtqii]

@@CopenhagenAtomics So you have caught my attention because this is a technology that can really benefit humanity if these basic chemistry and physics problems can be solved.

[@matsv201]

So this is a hot test reactor, i guess its electrically heated? But is there also a nuclear test bed. Like a small scale tester?

[@aaron_knight]

These would be great for tankers

[@Graywolf116]

I know this isn't American, but lol I wonder what the equivalent of ITAR looks / will look like for American private-sector reactor designs.

[@rowshambow]

Do you do tours?

[@CopenhagenAtomics]

Yes sometimes. You can write to us that you want to join here: copenhagenatomics.com/contact. We only do group tours to optimise time, so you will either have to join another group or collect a group yourself of approximately 20 people.

[@frankkolmann4801]

How did you solve the gamma radiation problem?

[@rtqii]

From my understanding is that no humans will be permitted inside the reactor container and all actions will be performed by remote control. I saw a video showing a container sized reactor buried in the ground, which provides physical shielding for gamma radiation.

[@frankkolmann4801]

That is a lot of Lead or Uranium. It will make the container very heavy.

[@HenrikRClausen]

Hvorfor er der musik i baggrunden?

[@johnkutsch7609]

You are our last hope in the western world - we can not secede this technology to China alone - We will do anything to help you!

[@doubleslit9513]

🤔 I DO remember that problem. When are you going to be traded publicly?

[@gerritcoetzee9075]

What is the power delivery capacity per reactor of these container size units?

[@claeswarningholbeck3742]

4000 kwh - 24/7

[@gerritcoetzee9075]

@@claeswarningholbeck3742 . I sent an email to your colleague Tobias. Hope to receive his response in due course. Whilst I await his reply: out of mere curiosity - is it 20' or 40' size container?

[@FizzBhaal]

The reactor in this video is a small demo, however the final reactor will be 100 MW thermal, at high temperature, in a 40 foot container. That could yield around 50 MW electric, but power conversion will not be part of that container.

[@artsmith103]

​@claeswarningholbeck3742 your answer is 4MW. I don't think that's correct. 25 reactors for 1 GW is 40 MW per reactor. This video references 100 MW.

[@georgetsatas6022]

whaaaaaaaaaaaat

[@JonathanSchattke]

No fucking way you're getting REACTOR running 5 years maintenance free with that many pumps at molten salt temperatures.

[@miles2378]

Is this related to Copenhagen Suborbital?

[@christianrishoj]

Same city, no other affiliation

[@Standartt01]

Would Finland perhaps host a reactor? They seem to be the only pro nuclear country in Northen Europe, otherwise perhaps France

[@ludovicferrer3138]

France had invested so much on other nuclear power technologies! Would French government take the bet to burry what they have invested so far if this amazing new technology is really effective ? Not so sure of that. I wish CA the best for their new developments.

[@chrisjohns9631]

I could put a 20KW reactor to good use 👍

[@rtqii]

So could I!!!

[@helmutzollner5496]

You say that Thorium reduces the need for mining a hundredfold. Thst is theoretically true, but practically Thorium is a waste product of rare earth extraction as thorium is contained in a significant concentration in Mozanite, the main ore of the heavy rare earth metals. It needs to be stored safely as liw radio active material. Thorium reactors use this material for energy generation. The heavy rare earth elemevts can be used in the "sustainable" new technologies and the naughty cousin Thorium can be used profitably as well. A winner all round. I think you do nit stress this fact enough!

[@CopenhagenAtomics]

Hi! You are completely right. We do try to stress this fact, but often we have to be short in our presentation and not every detail can be told. But if you haven't seen it yet, i'd suggest our latest talk, there we try to stress that thorium is very cheap especially because of the reasons you rightfully mention :) The latest speech: kzbin.info/www/bejne/i2WWZYavbqd6nJosi=85fS8qzr6NmWFMGZ

[@user-iz3gv5vo6b]

Has Denmark recinded it's law against Nuclear Energy yet? If CA's reactors not allowed to operate in Denmark, then why would other countries purchase these reators?

[@CopenhagenAtomics]

No unfortunatly they have not.. yet. We are in negotiations with several governments regarding conducting a criticality test of a 1MW test reactor. Everything up until then, we can conduct in Denmark, including subcritical testing.

[@user-iz3gv5vo6b]

​@@CopenhagenAtomics Thanks for your answer. I do believe that Copenhagen Atomics' vision of small mass manufactured thorium reactors would be the best overall global energy solution. That said, it seems that Last Energy's standardized micro modular pressurised water reactors using more traditional industrial supply and regulatory chains has much more momentum right now with it's latest batch of sales orders. If interested, perhaps I can email you and arrange a time for a quick discussion.

[@CopenhagenAtomics]

We know Last Energy very well, they were actually also at the Energy Tech Summit that our other video is from: kzbin.info/www/bejne/aGisn6esjNRno9E&ab_channel=CopenhagenAtomics It is inherently two very different solutions we are trying to bring to market, but they can easily be complementary solutions.

[@gerritcoetzee9075]

Okay, it is in the video: 100Mwh per day. 💪

[@hanserikbusk365]

They say 100 MW which will of course give 2400 MWh per day. And they plan to produce one such reaktor per day

[@stanmitchell3375]

Will the Chinese undercut them

[@bentray1908]

I wish you would not lie about the problem of waste. It isn’t a real problem. Energy security is the problem.

[@CopenhagenAtomics]

We certainly do not believe that the 'waste' is a problem, we believe it's a huge opportunity and that it is worth billions! Quite agree that energy security is a bigger problem.

[@jackhorse6698]

Skinny reactor walls, i feel so safe already.

[@CopenhagenAtomics]

It is explained in the video that there are 3 walls. The outer wall is more than ½ meter thick (not shown here)

[@jackhorse6698]

@@CopenhagenAtomics what a bullshit explanation, you know very well that the 3rd outermost wall is a radiation shield. The middle wall is the so called containment wall and the inner wall is the reactor vessel. placing such flimsy thin walls as the containment and reactor vessel only discredits your team, and makes you look like amateurs who have no idea what they are doing.

[@johnkutsch7609]

You do not want them shiny - you want them dull so that they are emmisive and transfer heat

[@FizzBhaal]

The great part of a MSR design like this, is that there is no high pressure parts, so there is no need for thick walls :) In most traditional power plants, there is water under extreme pressure to keep it liquid, and so a rupture will result in an explosive steam release. In molten salt, there is no need to pressurize the salt to keep it liquid, so any rupture will just result in molten salt running down the side of the inner enclosure and solidifying in the bottom of the container.

[@CB-bg3xy]

Hey Copenhagen Atomics.. sent you an email..we have several opportunities..pls. respond. ty.

[@Corvaire]

I'm guessing Ukraine would host a test sytem right now in the Kyiv area. :O(-

[@sunilholm9761]

I er da bare for seje.

[@chapter4travels]

You should do your live test reactor in the US! Bwhahahahaha, just kidding, The NRC wouldn't allow it in a million years. You know why? Because they SUCK

[@frankkolmann4801]

really dislike your silly background music