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First-Of-A-Kind Microreactor Test Bed ‘Open For Business’ At US Idaho Laboratory

By David Dalton
13 April 2026

Facility ‘essential’ for testing and validation of new reactor designs

First-Of-A-Kind Microreactor Test Bed ‘Open For Business’ At US Idaho Laboratory
Construction of the Dome test bed was accelerated by nearly a year. Courtesy INL.
A “first-of-its-kind” microreactor test bed that will enable rapid development, testing and demonstration of privately developed advanced nuclear reactors has opened at the federal Idaho National Laboratory (INL) in the US.

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