20 Megawatt Nuclear Reactors That Can Fit In a Truck
March 7, 2024 by Brian Wang
https://www.nextbigfuture.com/2024/03/2 ... truck.html
NANO Nuclear is a startup that has raised over $8 million to develop micro nuclear fission reactors with up to 20 megawatts of power. They will be transported by Semi Trucks.
They plan to sell 1,000 microreactors on a yearly basis for a trillion-dollar industry. Nuclear currently supplies some 18% of US power needs off 95GW of installed capacity, according to the Energy Information Agency (EIA). The Department of Energy (DoE) forecasts the country will need around 200GW of new nuclear capacity to reach net-zero by 2050.