Featured Industry Trailblazers
Advanced Reactor Concepts, LLC (ARC) - ARC is developing an exportable, factory-produced, sodium-cooled,
metal fueled, fast-reactor capable of producing 100 MWe. The ARC
reactor is an advanced small modular reactor with a twenty-year
refueling cycle. Its design affords fixed fuel costs for 20+ years,
offering safe, clean, affordable and proliferation-resistant nuclear
power to energy markets in both the developed and the developing world.
Elysium Industries - Elysium
is developing a unique Molten Chloride Salt Fast Reactor (MCSFR) that
can provide base-load clean power and has the ability to consume spent
nuclear fuel and weapons waste transforming it into useful energy. The
Elysium MCSFR will be built utilizing existing code-qualified materials
and relies on natural processes.
General Atomics (GA) - GA
is developing the Energy Multiplier Module (EM²), a helium-cooled fast
reactor designed as a modular, grid-capable power source that addresses
four of the most challenging problems facing nuclear energy: economics,
safety, waste, and nonproliferation.
GE Hitachi Nuclear Energy - GE
Hitachi Nuclear Energy's next evolution of sodium-cooled reactor
technology is the PRISM (Power Reactor Innovative Small Modular)
reactor. PRISM is a reactor that uses liquid sodium as a coolant. This
coolant allows the neutrons in the reactor to have a higher energy that
drive fission of the transuranics, converting them into short-lived
"fission products."
High Bridge Energy Development - High
Bridge Energy Development is dedicated to the commercial development of
SMRs. High Bridge aims to license and construct two modified
multi-purposed GEH PRISM reactors to serve as test reactors for the
nation.
Hybrid Power Technologies - Hybrid
Power is developing a 21st Century Fail-Safe Nuclear Hybrid Gas Reactor
that use nuclear and fossil fuel sources. The hybrid-nuclear approach
is a major technological breakthrough that is physically much smaller
than today's nuclear plants, although the hybrid's power output is
comparable to a large conventional nuclear plant.
Muons, Inc - Muons
is developing an Accelerator Driven Subcritical Reactor (ADSR), a new
kind of nuclear reactor that operates without the need for a critical
core, fuel enrichment, or reprocessing. This multipurpose reactor design
takes advantage of this new accelerator capability that includes an
internal spallation neutron target and high-temperature molten-salt fuel
with continuous purging of volatile radioactive fission products. The
waste stream from an ADSR is much smaller and vastly easier to manage
than that from a conventional reactor.
NuScale Power - NuScale
has designed an extraordinarily safe Integral Pressurized Water Reactor
(IPWR) wherein each NuScale Power ModuleTM is a self-contained unit
that operates independently within a multi-module configuration of up to
12 modules that are monitored and operated from a single control room.
NuScale intends to commercialize power plants that are modular and
scalable in 50 MWe (gross) increments. Using simplified, passive
technology, NuScale's design reduces complexity, improves safety,
enhances operability, and reduces risks.
TerraPower, LLC - TerraPower
has been leading the charge in the development of cutting-edge nuclear
energy technologies that offer scalable, sustainable, safe and
cost-competitive energy options. Through the development of the traveling wave reactor (TWR) program, a reactor technology capable of utilizing fuel made from depleted uranium, and the molten chloride fast reactor (MCFR) project, TerraPower is setting new standards in the development of advanced nuclear energy systems.
Terrestrial Energy - Terrestrial
Energy's Integral Molten Salt Reactor (IMSR®) is a small modular design
that employs advanced molten-salt technology to generate 190 MW of
power (400MW of heat). Terrestrial Energy's IMSR® has received notice
from the Canadian Nuclear Safety Commission (CNSC) that it has
successfully completed the first phase of the CNSC's pre-licensing
vendor design review. This represents the first regulatory opinion by a
western nuclear regulator of a commercial advanced reactor power plant
design.
X-energy - X-energy is an advanced nuclear reactor design and TRISO-based fuel fabrication company. X-energy
is developing the Xe-100, a Pebble-Bed High Temperature Gas-cooled
Reactor (HTGR) that will allow nuclear energy to take a larger role in
solving tomorrow's energy challenges. Each Xe-100 reactor generates
approximately 76MWe. A standard plant consists of 4 reactors, allowing
construction in increments up to approximately 300MWe. In concert
with Xe-100 design, X-energy is actively producing TRISO-based fuel
forms and will implement pilot scale manufacturing capacities starting
in 2018.
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