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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.
Richard W. Lee
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 30 | Number 3 | December 1996 | Pages 520-525
National Ignition Facility | doi.org/10.13182/FST96-A11962992
Articles are hosted by Taylor and Francis Online.
The relationship of the NIF mission to the future use of high-energy lasers for scientific research is discussed. A brief outline of the reasons that scientific use is being encouraged is followed by two examples of the type of research that have been performed on the existing high-energy lasers. By showing which technical achievements have been made, we can then illustrate what projects are currently ripe for investigation on existing facilities, and we can also conservatively predict what research is important but will have to wait for NIF-class lasers.
