Atomic Show #338 – Craig Bealmear, CFO Oklo

About this episode

The episode features Craig Bealmear discussing Oklo's innovative approach to small modular reactors and nuclear fuel recycling.

Oklo is rapidly becoming a household name, at least among households with members who pay attention to energy industry developments and/or the headliners in the financial press. Oklo is in the process of designing and permitting a family of small modular reactors that it plans to own and operate to produce electricity, heat and isotopes that it will sell to its end customers under long term power purchase agreements (PPA). The specific type of SMR that Oklo has chosen as the one with the best chance to economically meet its needs as a power and heat producer – over the long haul – is a liquid sodium cooled, fast neutron reactor designed to closely match the features and performance of the Experimental Breeder Reactor II (EBR-II). That impressively successful demonstration reactor, which produced about 20 MWe, ran reliably for 30 years (1964-1994). Oklo has stated that it intends to produce 15, 50 and 75 MWe versions of the system in order to best meet the needs of the customers it is aiming to serve. An integral part of the Oklo vision is to recycle used nuclear fuel, the material that is often referred to as spent nuclear fuel or even “nuclear waste.” The fact that…

People in this episode

Host: Rod Adams

Guest: Craig Bealmear

Topics covered

• small modular reactors
• nuclear energy
• energy industry
• recycling nuclear fuel
• power purchase agreements

Keywords

• Oklo
• small modular reactors
• nuclear energy
• liquid sodium cooled
• fast neutron reactor
• recycling nuclear fuel
• power purchase agreements

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Oklo, Experimental Breeder Reactor II, nuclear waste

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