In search of the practical advanced reactor

By Thomas Thor | July 26, 2021 |

Danish start-up Seaborg has a new concept in reactor design that promises clean and reliable power in a small package. Bringing it to market requires innovation from a technical team growing under co-founder and CTO Eirik Eide Pettersen. The story of Seaborg’s technology begins around 60 years ago with experimental reactors at Oak Ridge National…

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Eirik Eide Pettersen: powered by a good idea

By Thomas Thor | January 25, 2021 |

Eirik Eide Pettersen is the Chief Technical Officer of Seaborg Technologies, a start-up company based in Denmark with an expansive vision for small molten salt reactors. As a Norwegian, he followed friends into that country’s fossil fuel sector, but soon hit on some better ideas. Finding the fossil sector unappealing, Eirik left without much of…

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