Name: 核能文藝復興即將到來 (A Renaissance of nuclear energy is on the way)
Uploaded: 2025-10-14T06:31:49.000Z
Duration: 2 min

The world succeeded in making over 400 nuclear reactors that generate clean electricity.

全世界成功建造了超過 400 座核反應爐，產生清潔電力。

It is advantageous in that it can generate electricity 24 hours a day.

It doesn't require much land, it doesn't emit greenhouse gases, it can be placed near to where the electricity is needed.

它不需要太多土地，不排放溫室氣體，可以設置在電力需求的地方附近。

But most plants today are based on designs from half a century ago to make them extremely relia and safe.

但今天大多數的反應爐都是基於半個世紀前的設計，以確保它們極度可靠和安全。

The cost of building those reactors got very, very high.

建造這些反應爐的成本變得非常非常高。

The question that I asked a lot of smart physicist friends around 2000 was, is there a new way to do reactors?

我在 2000 年左右問了許多聰明的物理學家朋友一個問題：有沒有新的方法來建造反應爐？

That's the dream that TerraPower was founded to achieve.

這就是 TerraPower 創立以來一直致力實現的夢想。

A lot of my motivation in creating TerraPower was to have cheap electricity for the entire world, including for the poor countries.

我創立 TerraPower 的動力之一，就是為全世界，包括貧窮國家，提供廉價電力。

If you don't have electricity, there's a real limit to how much you can develop economically, because until you get the electricity, you don't have the economic growth.

如果沒有電力，經濟發展就會受到很大限制，因為在獲得電力之前，就無法實現經濟增長。

But until you get the economic growth, you can't justify getting the electricity.

但是，在實現經濟增長之前，你無法證明電力是合理的。

TerraPower has built a next generation reactor whose cost and safety is very different than any of the commercial reactors that are in use today.

TerraPower 建造了一座下一代反應爐，其成本和安全性與目前使用的任何商用反應爐都大不相同。

It's a lot simpler, so the amount of cement we need is way less.

它簡單得多，所以我們需要的水泥量也少得多。

It's less expensive to run a plant, it's a lot safer.

營運一座電廠的成本更低，而且安全得多。

That should allow for a renaissance of nuclear energy and a gigantic contribution to low cost electricity, helping to bring power to the world, meeting the growing demands of data centers and AI and avoiding the problems of climate change.

這應該能促進核能的復興，並為低成本電力做出巨大貢獻，幫助為世界提供電力，滿足資料中心和 AI 的日益增長的需求，並避免氣候變遷的問題。