Nothing like some good news to usher in the new year. Our friends at Copenhagen Atomics are taking great strides as we roll into 2025. Their joint project with PSI (the Paul Scherrer Institute) in Switzerland marks yet just another key milestone they reached as they prepare to run their first live test reactor.

We woke up on Thursday morning, January 2nd, to an email from the folks at Copenhagen Atomics going over their highlights of 2024: celebrating the agreement they had signed with PSI, having optimized and scaled up their tonne-scale salt production, and having joined a major partnership in taking on waste challenges in nuclear technology, amongst others.

As detailed by Thomas Jam Pedersen in his insightful Opinion piece, a nuclear renaissance is going from a whisper to a roar, especially in the US under the new incoming Administration.

Thomas highlights the unprecedented optimism at the Texas Nuclear Summit where the slogan was "time-to-build," aiming for a 65 GW increase in nuclear capacity. With regulatory changes on the horizon, the stage is being set for a major shift towards innovation in nuclear energy. Copenhagen Atomics stands at the forefront, with its waste burners potentially revolutionizing the industry by efficiently recycling spent nuclear fuel, making CANDU reactors more economical, and possibly leading the charge in thorium-based energy.

Thomas also predicts that by the early 2030s, Copenhagen Atomics could be building one reactor per day, heralding in an era where nuclear could very well end up fulfilling over half of the world's energy needs by 2100.

Interesting times ahead, and good reason for optimism too. We’re excited, and hope you use this good news as a highlight to kick off 2025 as well.

Here's to a Happy New Element!

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