Oakville, Ontario, May 5, 2022 – Terrestrial Energy hosted the 32nd GIF Molten Salt Reactor steering committee meeting at its Oakville, Canada office on May 3-5, 2022. This bi-annual gathering of world nuclear experts is part of the Generation IV International Forum (GIF). Terrestrial Energy, developing its Integral Molten Salt Reactor (IMSR) cogeneration plant based...
By Simon Irish
By Simon Irish There is growing excitement around the world about the potential of green hydrogen as a major energy carrier in our clean energy transition, and for good reason. A kilogram of hydrogen holds more chemical energy that any other fuel and burns cleanly. This gives hydrogen the potential to be a direct substitute...
By Simon Irish
By Mike Drury “New nuclear” has enjoyed a good start to 2022. Breakthrough legislation on the financing of new nuclear projects has been followed by warm rhetoric from the Business Secretary, Kwasi Kwarteng, who talked about the need for the UK to “double down on new nuclear power” as “the more clean, affordable power we...
GREENWICH, CT and BETHESDA, MD – October 13, 2020 – Terrestrial Energy USA and Centrus Energy Corp. have signed a memorandum of understanding to secure fuel supply for a future fleet of Integral Molten Salt Reactor (IMSR) power plants. The two companies will evaluate the logistical, regulatory, and transportation requirements to establish fuel supply for...
OAKVILLE, ON – October 6, 2020 – The Terrestrial Energy Integral Molten Salt Reactor (IMSR®) has been selected by Ontario Power Generation for further evaluation under the electric utility’s program to deploy small modular reactor (SMR) power plants. The IMSR is one of three SMR technologies chosen by OPG for further evaluation at the conclusion...
OAKVILLE AND MONTREAL – September 30, 2020 – Terrestrial Energy has awarded L3Harris Technologies a contract to develop an engineering and operator training simulator for the Integral Molten Salt Reactor (IMSR®), a Generation IV nuclear power plant. The IMSR power plant simulator is being built at L3Harris’ operation in Montreal, Quebec and will be delivered...
By Nuclear Engineering International
At Terrestrial Energy, we believe our Integral Molten Salt Reactor (IMSR) can vastly expand nuclear energy's capabilities. And because it is smaller, more economical and faster to build than traditional reactors, the Generation-4 IMSR power plant opens new markets. Terrestrial Energy has been working to get the IMSR technology to market by the 2020s. The design was the first advanced nuclear plant to successfully complete Phase 1 of the Canadian Nuclear Safety Commission (CNSC) Vendor Design Review, in October 2017, and in October this year it became the first to start Phase 2 of the CNSC review.
The U.S. Department of Energy announced on Nov. 13 that it had selected Terrestrial Energy USA for a financial award to support the company’s pre-application activities with the Nuclear Regulatory Commission. These activities will advance the licensing of the Integral Molten Salt Reactor (IMSR) power plant design in the U.S. and accelerate its deployment.
By POWER magazine
Terrestrial Energy USA, a company that is developing a fourth-generation molten salt nuclear reactor, has joined forces with Southern Co. and several U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) national labs, in a research and development (R&D) project that seeks to pin down whether its reactor technology can produce hydrogen efficiently using nuclear heat and power. DOE’s Savannah River National Laboratory (SRNL) says the demonstration could develop a “plausible path” to producing hydrogen gas using both thermal and electrical energy (78% thermal energy and 22% electrical energy) at a cost of less than $2/kilogram of hydrogen. Molten salt reactors are the “best choice” for high turn-down electrical power generation efficiency, it says.
