TerraPower’s Natrium pairs a sodium fast reactor with heat storage
September 2, 2020, 3:00PMNuclear News
An artist’s rendering of Natrium. Image: TerraPower
The Natrium reactor and energy system architecture, recently introduced by TerraPower and GE Hitachi Nuclear Energy (GEH), offers baseload electricity output from a 345-MWe sodium fast reactor with the load-following flexibility of molten salt thermal storage. Stored heat can be used to boost the system’s output to 500 MWe for more than five and a half hours when needed, according to TerraPower. A company representative told Nuclear News that the company expects a commercial Natrium plant to cost $1 billion or less.
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