Here is a report about a nuclear reactor which Bill Gates and Warren Buffett would like to build:
The US Navy once used a sodium-moderated reactor, in USS Seawolf (SSN-575), but replaced it almost immediately and abandoned the concept. According to ADM Hyman Rickover, such reactors were "expensive to build, complex to operate, susceptible to prolonged shutdown as a result of even minor malfunctions, and difficult and time-consuming to repair."
Perhaps Messrs. Gates and Buffett will have better success than ADM Rickover, but I doubt it. Neither man is fit to even shine Rickover's shoes.
By the way, the Navy buried the original Seawolf reactor at sea off the Atlantic coast of the US. Two decades later they searched for but could not find it.
Source - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Seawolf_(SSN-575)
Something tells me the Natrium reactor may suffer a similar fate.
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