Holtec filed its safety analysis with the NRC, completing the permit application for two SMR-300 reactors totalling 680 MW at Palisades. Reviews of individual design pieces have NRC dates, but the public record shows no date yet for the permit decision that would let construction start.
Reality
- Evidence45
- Adoption12
- Hype gap+20
- Incentives
- Insufficient
- Confidence45
Natura Resources says it now holds the coolant for its MSR-1 demonstration reactor, shipped from Oak Ridge through Idaho National Laboratory to the Abilene Christian University site on September 18. It won the material in a DOE competition.
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- Evidence34
- Adoption22
- Hype gap+33
- Incentives72
- Confidence44
The collaboration with the Idaho National Laboratory Foundation, EXP and Premier Technology covers licensing, manufacturing and training. Testing at a Department of Energy laboratory would take separate agreements.
Reality
- Evidence22
- Adoption8
- Hype gap+30
- Incentives80
- Confidence58
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.
Reality
- Evidence28
- Adoption22
- Hype gap+38
- Incentives70
- Confidence32
Terrestrial Energy has asked the US Nuclear Regulatory Commission to approve the method it uses to qualify graphite for its molten salt reactor core. Whatever the review supports sets the service life of a component the company plans to replace roughly every seven years.
Reality
- Evidence34
- Adoption12
- Hype gap+31
- Incentives74
- Confidence48
The Kaleidos microreactor left El Segundo for Idaho National Laboratory on August 12, bound for a five-phase test campaign that ends with 150 hours of unattended full-power operation.
Reality
- Evidence34
- Adoption22
- Hype gap+34
- Incentives72
- Confidence40