Author and retired power generation senior executive Fritz Gautschi has been involved in international operations and management for over 35 years. Among Fritz Gautschi’s professional experiences has been managing nuclear power plants.

1. A Meltdown-Proof Nuclear Reactor?
Fritz Gautschi

2. Introduction
 Author and retired power generation senior executive
Fritz Gautschi has been involved in international
operations and management for over 35 years. Among
Fritz Gautschi’s professional experiences has been
managing nuclear power plants.
Despite some accidents involving nuclear plants, many
see nuclear energy as one viable and reliable source of
energy for the future. It is also viewed as being
environmentally friendly due to its zero carbon emission.
A number of innovations have emerged with regard to
generating electricity using nuclear power. One of them
comes from two MIT nuclear engineering graduate
students, Leslie Dewan and Mark Massie, who have
formed a company called Transatomic Power.

3. Meltdown-Proof Nuclear Reactor
 A modification to technology conceived over 50 years
ago, the reactor design utilizes nuclear waste (of which
there is ample supply), which is dissolved into molten
salt. This makes it much safer as molten salt evaporates
at a higher temperature than coolant water in traditional
reactors. If there is reactor damage and pump failure, it
will not evaporate unlike traditional nuclear reactors,
which fail in liquid status, producing radioactive steam.
Also, this new design will use practically all of uranium’s
potential energy. This differs from traditional nuclear
reactors, which typically use only 3% to 5% of the energy.
Experiments are under way to test the validity of this new
type of nuclear reactor.