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NRC okays construction permits for Hermes 2 test facility
The Nuclear Regulatory Commission announced yesterday that it has directed staff to issue construction permits to Kairos Power for the company's proposed Hermes 2 nonpower test reactor facility to be built at the Heritage Center Industrial Park in Oak Ridge, Tenn. The permits authorize Kairos to build a facility with two 35-MWt test reactors that would use molten salt to cool the reactor cores.
13th Nuclear Plant Instrumentation, Control & Human-Machine Interface Technologies (NPIC&HMIT 2023)
Dr. Christopher Poresky is the Manager of Cyber Physical Systems (CPS) in the Instrumentation, Controls, & Electrical (IC&E) Department at Kairos Power. The CPS team designs and maintains Kairos human-machine interfaces, datalogging and communications infrastructure, and operations and maintenance strategies for Kairos test systems big and small including the Kairos Power Fluoride-Salt-Cooled High-Temperature Reactor (KP-FHR) design. These products empower the Kairos team to learn from its design, build, and test activities in real time and feed learnings into next iterations so that the KP-FHR can provide clean, affordable energy.
Previously, Dr. Poresky was a postdoctoral researcher at the University of California, Berkeley. He obtained a Ph.D. and M.S. in Nuclear Engineering from the University of California, Berkeley as well as a B.S. in Mechanical Engineering from Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey – New Brunswick.
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