Again no need for new tech. The Russians have had a fast spectrum reactor running since the 1970s providing not only power but also desalination water on the Caspian Sea. It is a sodium cooled fast reactor they have two more larger ones based on the older proven tech.
We had a fully functional integral fast reactor that had all the reprocessing tech on-site and it did process fuel putting back in spent fuel plus additional U238 and only fission products came out as solid glass in steel tubes.
Proven tech we know it worked and worked well.
They tried to melt it down. They could not by any means they tried. They pulled the rods all out at full power , the negative Doppler coef shut it down on it’s own. They shut the coolant pumps off at full power , it is a pool reactor natural circulation took over and the pool mass plus the guard vessel air cooling didn’t even come close to boiling the liquid sodium again the Doppler effect shut it down. Then they did what would absolutely destroy a PWR they run it up to full power pulled the rods AND cut the pumps. This is deliberate sabotage level event as it could never happen in any foreseeable normal operating mode. Yup natural circulation took over and the Doppler effect shut it down. You simply cannot melt down a properly designed sodium pool reactor.
We had this tech and Clinton that traitor shut it down to save $37 million a year in finding. No it was killed because it worked too well. IFR is forever energy, it unlocks 83 terajoules per kg of uranium ALL uranium not just U235 in the 0.7% isotope vs U238.
The IFR is a energy conversion machine it converts mass into energy at the E=MC^2 level no other machine does this fusion that is still years away can it is the only other way.
1kg of U any Uranium is 83 TJ that’s equal too 14,300 barrels of oil we have hundreds of thousands of tonnes of uranium sitting 700,000+ tonnes every single KG has the energy of 14,000 bbl of oil.
You now see why the commies cannot allow the IFR tech to flourish.
Again Aalo in Austin is doing sodium cooled reactors, they are end running by using solid moderator and enriched U235 but make no mistake the fires , pumps and control rods are designed to take the solid moderator pins out and put Pu239 pins in with U238 blanket pins. It is a fast spectrum core from day one hiding in plain sight as a thermal spectrum sodium cooled snickers ha reactor.
It is an exciting time, no doubt. We should have been at this point decades ago, but better late than never.
We need at least one to two more conservative administrations to let this stuff get a foothold before the Leftists try the smother it in the cradle.