NRG Pallas has signed a major contract with US nuclear energy company Kairos Power to assess materials and fuels that will be used in Kairos’s small modular reactor fleet.
Kairos Power, a seven-year-old California-based startup, is planning to build a number of its fluoride salt-cooled high temperature reactors (KP-HFRs) for Google data centres to deliver 500 MW of clean electricity generation.
Netherlands-based NRG Pallas will perform irradiation demonstration and qualification of fuels and materials to support Kairos’s commercial KP-FHR deployment programme.
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