weinbergfoundation

Hi Peter,

We at the Weinberg Foundation are real fans of your work - inducement prizes are such a fantastic way to provoke innovation. We are followers of Alvin Weinberg, the American physicist and Oak Ridge laboratory director.

We believe there is a new way for nuclear power by switching from light water reactors to a safer, cleaner and cheaper paradigm - that of Thorium-fuelled molten salt reactors.

Would you consider doing an XPRIZE to address the market failure in nuclear innovation with us?

Glad to hear!

Fair question, agreed a demonstrator plant is probably far too big a project for an XP - but there are still plenty of problems that need solving.

Say - design and demonstrate a reactor core burning Th/U with passive safety systems, using no new materials that costs <$2500/kW.

The licensing and site regulation is tricky, but not unfeasible with the right partnerships.

It might sound too big, but look at the success you've had with civilian space! Find a smaller part of the problem, and all the surrounding factors about the prize could give the sector a huge boost!