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Sunday, February 15, 2015

US Dept of Energy Helping Canada and China to create Molten Salt Reactors

Mark Halper reports at Fortune that DOE (US Dept of Energy) plans to
sign a 10-year collaboration agreement with China to help that country
build at least one molten-salt nuclear reactor within the next decade.
And in a smaller development, Oak Ridge publicly announced in January
that it will advise Terrestrial Energy, a privately held Canadian
start-up, on development of a molten-salt reactor that draws on
Weinberg designs and on the reactor scheme that briefly hatched at Oak
Ridge after Weinberg left.

The idea from the U.S. perspective—especially with the larger DOE
collaboration with the Chinese Academy of Sciences—is to foster a
reactor that could eventually gain hold in the U.S.
http://nextbigfuture.com/2015/02/us-dept-of-energy-helping-canada-and.html

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