Awarded by TerraPower, the contracts are aimed at advancing the development and construction of the Natrium sodium-cooled fast reactor. The step is a significant milestone in the deployment and ...

Explore the groundbreaking Natrium reactor and its role in redefining nuclear power for a greener, more reliable energy grid.

Its Prototype Fast Breeder Reactor (PFBR ... Nabhikiya Vidyut Nigam Limited (BHAVINI), the PFBR is a 500 MWe sodium-cooled reactor located in Kalpakkam, Tamil Nadu. Unlike traditional nuclear ...

French nuclear start-up Hexana, spun out the Alternative Energies & Atomic Energy Commission (CEA – Commissariat à l’énergie ...

It is for these reasons that fast reactors have been under development for decades in several countries, primarily as breeders and, in recent years, also as high-level waste burners. Sodium cooled ...

Unit 4 at Russia’s Beloyarsk NPP, which uses a BN-800 sodium-cooled fast neutron reactor has resumed operation after a ...

Any fast reactor can in theory be used to breed fuel and burn it. Schematic of a sodium-cooled fast reactor. Changing an FBR design to FNR involves removing the 238 U blanket and installing ...

The Natrium technology features an advanced nuclear design with a 345 MW sodium-cooled fast reactor with a gigawatt-scale molten salt-based energy storage system. The energy storage capability allows ...

Alongside this reactor type, Rosatom is also looking to build a number of sodium-cooled BN-1200 fast reactors which build upon the research done with the BN-350, BN-600, and BN-800 reactors since ...

By the 1970s and 1980s, nuclear power plants became integral to the country’s electricity supply, providing a stable and ...

The industry ministry picked Mitsubishi Heavy Industries Ltd. as a company to play the core role in developing a next-generation nuclear reactor with a demonstration sodium-cooled fast reactor ...

The Natrium technology is the first advanced nuclear technology to be deployed in the U.S. It features a 345-MW sodium-cooled ...