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TerraPower begins U.K. regulatory approval process
Seattle-based TerraPower signaled its interest this week in building its Natrium small modular reactor in the United Kingdom, the company announced.
TerraPower sent a letter to the U.K.’s Department for Energy Security and Net Zero, formally establishing its intention to enter the U.K. generic design assessment (GDA) process. This is TerraPower’s first step in deployment of its Natrium technology—a 345-MW sodium fast reactor coupled with a molten salt energy storage unit—on the international stage.
Günter Grieger
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 8 | Number 1 | July 1985 | Pages 206-213
Next-Generation Device | Proceedings of the Sixth Topical Meeting on the Technology of Fusion Energy (San Francisco, California, March 3-7, 1985) | doi.org/10.13182/FST85-A40047
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INTOR is an international cooperatative project which started already in 1979. Its task is the demonstration of Tokamak reactor physics and to serve as a test bed for the development of fusion reactor technology. The development of the INTOR concept has reached a rather high degree of self-consistency. The concept is rather conservative in order to achieve sufficient predictability of performance. Particular discussion is devoted to the status of the INTOR physics data base and on the strategy of their generation. It is concluded that INTOR offers a chance to go to the next step within a reasonable time during which the data base will still be improved. The INTOR design concept is also very useful as a reference system for assessing the impact of innovative concepts.
