I've watched this kid's TED talk, and he didn't say anything that couldn't have been presented by anyone who watched a couple Kirk Sorenson videos. I gave a shorter version of the same talk in 2011, to small groups at the U.N. and Congress. Somehow the kid is getting away with repackaging molten salt reactors as his own idea, without giving credit to the many actual nuclear engineers working on it.
Aside from Oak Ridge's pioneering efforts fifty years ago, there are several startups in the U.S, one in Canada, a billion-dollar effort in China, and additional work in several other countries.
Aside from Oak Ridge's pioneering efforts fifty years ago, there are several startups in the U.S, one in Canada, a billion-dollar effort in China, and additional work in several other countries.