How can traveling wave reactors solve nuclear energy issues?

How can traveling wave reactors solve nuclear energy issues? Traveling Wave Reactors (TWRs) offer a promising approach to improving sustainability and safety in nuclear energy, though it faces challenges. Professor Di Yun from Xi’an Jiaotong University discusses a novel ‘Tai-Chi’ technology designed to tackle key R&D issues related to TWR. With rising electricity demands all over the globe and abnormal climate patterns due to carbon emissions, nuclear power is being valued as a vital electricity generation source. Having experienced the Three Mile Island accident, the Chernobyl accident, and the Fukushima accident, the safety standards and measures taken by the nuclear industry have taken a huge leap to become more systematic and mature. However, there are still some hardcore issues that nuclear power needs to overcome, among which the most imminent ones are scarce uranium resources, disposition of nuclear wastes, and climbing costs as the safety measures of the current nuclear systems become more stringent.