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The new generation of nuclear reactors developed by engineers from Generation Y, receives support from both billionaires and the UN. International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) started the exchange of information between countries on technology that uses molten salt instead of water and solid fuel. The exchange offers help to investors such as Bill Gates and Peter Thiel, who supports the new model reactors as safe and cheap.

It is necessary a faster imposition of these new reactors because the United States decided to accelerate the process of stopping the outdated nuclear power plants and switching to cheaper natural gas and renewables. At present is under way a procedure for the closure of 18 reactors and other 6 will be closed for economic reasons. In 2030, will be closed many more reactors, which would be a blow to America’s largest energy source that does not emit harmful emissions. This in turn would have a negative impact on the global fight against global warming.

According to the economists and energy developers, the technology that we use in modern nuclear reactors will never be more advantageous economically. The usage of liquefied salt will fundamentally change the energy sector. According to the energy experts the future electricity will be generated from wind and solar generators, and small plant.

In contrast to most existing reactors that use water to generate nuclear reactions in massive retaining vessels, then using molten salt reactor (MSR), operating at normal atmospheric pressure. This is something very important because in the event of an accident the pressure will be sufficient to obtain an explosion similar to the one in Chernobyl or Fukushima.

Due to the fact that the new technology does not use large vessels, the MSR reactor can be built with less investment and they will be smaller and more compact.

The US President Donald Trump said that the nuclear technology was should have a greater role in the United States. Transatomic startups as they played a key role in stimulating the US nuclear industry, which has stalled.