Data Center Infrastructure Podcast - Ep 5 - Microreactors and the Future of Data Center Power
Show notes
A nuclear reactor that fits in a shipping container, built on an assembly line, and sold out through 2035.
Recording on the road at the Future Bridge High Density Power Conference, Eric and Lance sit down with Richard Gaut, CFO of Deployable Energy, maker of a one megawatt microreactor.
Eric discloses up front that he's an angel investor, then Richard explains why nuclear's problem was never the physics, it was the construction. Factory built reactors, the new NRC Part 57 rules written for them, and the Department of Energy race that got their unit critical before July 4th after entering a 400 day challenge on day 250.
Plus what walk away safe means, proven at the Idaho National Lab by draining the coolant at full power and watching the reactor calmly shut itself down. Why the system uses no water. The 60 acre gigawatt, delivered in 200 megawatt phases. And the island nations burning diesel for half their power, where one container of uranium plus waste heat desalination changes everything.
Richard's advice for young people closes the show. The white collar or bust path was dead wrong, and most people have no concept of what enables their lifestyle.
If you use your phone, you use a data center. Get to know what's good and what's bad.
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