The DBI Thorium Breeding/Breeder Reactor represents an evolutionary advance in nuclear reactor design. Under development for four decades, the reactor consists of a small number of robust, mechanically-elegant and low pressure core systems. This elegance reduces overall manufacturing, installation, operations and maintenance costs while simultaneously enhancing operational safety.
Compared to other reactors, each DBI reactor is small and modular, offering both a shorter installation time as well as a more rapid commencement of revenue-generating operations. As a result, DBI reactors require only a fraction of the capital carrying costs of traditional nuclear reactors (tens of millions of dollars for a DBI design versus billions of dollars for current Gigawatt size facilities). The DBI reactor generates electricity at lower cost compared to traditional reactors and therefore increases customer profit margins. Additionally, because of its small size and modular design, the DBI reactor is well suited for both small and large applications, enabling the reactor to service a broad and diverse customer base.
Another major benefit of the DBI reactor is that it utilizes thorium rather than uranium as a primary fuel. The thorium fuel cycle offers numerous benefits including strong proliferation resistance, vastly reduced waste radiotoxicity, a cleaner and more cost effective fuel production methodology as well as a diverse and abundant supply base. In addition, because the DBI reactor is a breeding/breeder reactor, upon decommissioning, the newly bred and other “unspent” useful fuel elements can be transferred with no processing into a second generation DBI reactor core for additional power generation, providing up to 100% reduced cost for the initial fuel load in a subsequent DBI reactor.
The DBI reactor offers a clean, green, safe and economical nuclear solution to the energy crisis and global climate change. For more details about the reactor, please browse through the rest of the website.
