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Oklo does not have an approved design. They have applied and are awaiting approval.

https://www.nrc.gov/reactors/new-reactors/advanced/who-were-...




They got laughed out of the room because they couldn’t even give the required information to start the process.

https://www.nrc.gov/reading-rm/doc-collections/news/2022/22-...


Considering that they’d filed the first application for a non-LWR in decades I don’t think they did that bad. Still I thought it was a waste that they went on and on about the risk of supervolcanos and never said what they would do if the sodium coolant caught on fire. (Not that hard to answer, necessarily as you can detect it, drain water if is involved, and put the fire out…. But you’ve got to have some answer for an SFR.)




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