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Development and commercialisation of next-generation fission designs, here TerraPower's sodium-cooled fast reactor with molten salt thermal storage.
DOE approved added cost-shared funding to speed the Molten Chloride Reactor Experiment toward criticality as early as 2027. That date is a developer target, and it would give designers their first measured data on a design they have so far only modeled.
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The platform converts engineering data and safety analyses into licensing documents in English and Swedish, and Blykalla's head of AI puts the goal at cutting documentation time and resources by 90 percent. The American test is a pre-application discussion with the NRC.
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Actinide's accredited assay is real and very small. The claim worth testing is that a direct-to-solid separator removes the deconversion step America never built.
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The deal folds lead-cooled and salt-cooled reactor lines into one program and hands a microreactor developer a spent-fuel separation process already tested on irradiated fuel.
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The August 14 deal names an EPC contractor and adds financing guarantees for up to eight 345MW reactors. Those are the items that decide whether a demo plant becomes a fleet.
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