Nuclear energy is the new clean energy as it produces nearly zero carbon dioxide or any other greenhouse emissions. It also avoids producing air pollutants that are related to burning fossil fuels for energy. Developing companies like Kairos are coming up with new ways to make use of this energy and take full advantage of it to produce new inventions to save nature and for a better living.in this article, we shall discuss the various agreements that Kairos Power came up with, its current status, and more.
What Is Kairos Power?
Kairos Power is an engineering company that aims to deliver clean, affordable, and safe energy solutions through its design, and its advanced reactor technology. The agreement made by Kairos is a part of developing and commercializing a broad portfolio of advanced clean electricity technologies to power global data centers and offices.
This company has agreed to buy 500 megawatts of power from six to seven reactors which is smaller than the output of today’s nuclear reactors. The nuclear reactors today are about 300 megawatts and large power plants could go up to 1,000 megawatts.
Nuclear Clean Energy Agreement
Last year, Kairos got a construction permit from the NRC for the reactors to build a demonstration reactor in Tennessee but Kairos needs a design and construction permit from the NRC for the reactors which will be announced next week.
To help cut construction costs, small modular reactors are intended to be smaller than today’s reactors with components built in a factory instead of onsite to help cut construction costs. Kairos Power aims to bring its first small modular reactor online by 2030 by its agreement. Kairos also promises more developments through 2035. The company has not revealed where the plants will be built in the United States. The senior director for energy and climate at Google, Michael Terrell, says that nuclear can play an important role in helping to meet the demand. The US data center power is expected to triple between 2023 and 2030. This will also require about 47 gigawatts of new-generation capacity wherein the gaps could be filled by natural gas, wind, and solar power.
In March, Amazon purchased a nuclear-powered data center from Talen Energy; Microsoft and Constellation Energy signed a power deal to help resurrect a unit of the Three Mile Island Plant.
Critics say that the small modular radiators will be expensive because they may not be able to achieve the economy of the scale of larger plants and additionally, this will produce long-lasting nuclear waste for which the country does not have a final repository. Google said on Monday it signed the world’s first cooperative agreement to buy power from multiple small reactors to meet electricity demand for artificial intelligence.
The only concern to ever arise with these new nuclear clean energy agreements with Kairos Power is the disposal of the machines and waste produced during its manufacture. Kairos promises a better future with less consumption of nuclear energy and high results along with it. Mike Laufer, co-founder and CEO of Kairos says that the team is confident that this approach they are taking will improve the prospects of the projects being delivered on cost and on schedule. Let’s all hope for a better future!
