How many homes is the Natrium technology capable of powering?
The Natrium™ technology features a 345 MWe sodium-cooled fast reactor with a molten salt-based energy storage system. The storage technology can boost the system’s output to 500 MWe for more than five and a half hours when needed. Because the Natrium plant’s storage technology can boost the system’s output from 345 MWe to 500 MWe when needed, the technology will be able to power approximately 250,000 to 400,000 homes depending on need.
https://natriumpower.com/frequently-asked-questions/#technology
I've said previously that "homes" is a misleading and even childish unit for measuring energy, but I also know that the average relatively innumerate "layperson" isn't going to be wrapping their heads around exajoules anytime soon.
Residential use accounts for close to 20% of the energy used in the U.S.A..
From that, we can conclude from TerraPower's own figures that one of these plants could support the entirely carbon-free middle class lifestyles of 50,000 to 80,000 U.S. Americans.
If we want to make the math easy, which I do, we might say that one of these reactors could support the basic necessities of clean water, healthy food, and comfortable basic housing for 500,000 to 800,000 people.
The Natrium website gives the obligatory nod to wind and solar power, which is always amusing. If you build enough nuclear power plants you don't need wind or solar power. The converse is not true.
Unfortunately it seems that any new energy resources are going to be used on Artificial Intelligence (or Idiocy, depending how you look at it) and new energy-intensive tools for spying on people.
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