{"type":"rich","version":"1.0","provider_name":"Transistor","provider_url":"https://transistor.fm","author_name":"Not Your Father’s Data Center","title":"Let’s Talk Nuclear with Dr. Everett Redmond","html":"","width":"100%","height":180,"duration":2218,"description":"The Hawk’s talk went nuclear again. Raymond Hawkins brought on Dr. EverettRedmond. A Senior Technical Advisor of New Reactors and Advanced Technology atthe Nuclear Energy Institute, Dr. Redmond joined the show for a fascinating talk onnuclear energy and energy in general for the data center industry.\nDr. Redmond studied nuclear engineering at MIT, and along with scuba diving, hispassion is nuclear energy.\nDiving in, only some pun intended, to the world of bitcoin, Dr. Redmond said there wasa tie-in between crypto and nuclear energy. “Last year, we saw a number of Bitcoincompanies make agreements with reactor companies. In one case, with a new reactorvendor. They’re looking for that clean, carbon-free energy to power their miningoperations, and so you’re seeing those connections.”\nDr. Redmond touched on some new nuclear-related projects occurring in the UnitedStates,“There’s a company called New Scale developing a new light water, water-cooled reactor,” Dr. Redmond continued, “They’ve teamed up with UAMPS (UtahAssociated Municipal Power Systems.) They plan to build an Idaho national laboratoryand be operational by 2029. And then you have a couple of other companies,TerraPower and X-energy, awarded projects by the Department of Energy.”\n \nThese projects will bring nuclear power to Wyoming for the first time and expandcarbon-free energy production in Washington.\nWith a blossoming of new nuclear energy projects afoot, Hawkins wanted to know theviability of data centers teaming up with nuclear power to provide carbon-free energy todata storage. Dr. Redmond was clear: nuclear energy tends to go where the need is, and \noften that is if there are regulatory requirements to meet carbon-neutral goals. He noted \nthat some companies with long-range plans are looking at ways nuclear energy can be\npart of the equation to provide energy solutions in the future.","thumbnail_url":"https://img.transistorcdn.com/RXpUKjFAoV_3f-mxnboQocsKDB9VaG8WJ0_7eYXXgB0/rs:fill:0:0:1/w:400/h:400/q:60/mb:500000/aHR0cHM6Ly9pbWct/dXBsb2FkLXByb2R1/Y3Rpb24udHJhbnNp/c3Rvci5mbS9jZmI5/ODRlMjU4Zjg3ODM4/ZDJlOWUzMDhiNWUw/YzI1Mi5qcGc.webp","thumbnail_width":300,"thumbnail_height":300}