Southern Company and TerraPower, the nuclear technology company founded by Bill Gates, announced the finalisation of an agreement to design, construct and operate a small molten chloride reactor experiment (MCRE) at the US Department of Energy’s Idaho National Laboratory.
TerraPower said MCRE will be the world’s first critical fast-spectrum salt reactor experiment and is expected to advance the company’s molten chloride fast reactor (MCFR) technology.
TerraPower said MCRE will be the world’s first critical fast-spectrum salt reactor experiment and is expected to advance the company’s molten chloride fast reactor (MCFR) technology.
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