Spain-based engineering group Empresarios Agrupados (EAI) has signed an architect engineering contract for ThorCon’s 500 MW (TMSR-500) advanced nuclear fission power plant for Indonesia.
EAI said the TMSR-500 will demonstrate a way to solve Indonesia’s energy needs with a non-intermittent source of power that is carbon-free, low cost and safe.
Unlike all current nuclear reactors, the fuel is in liquid form. It can be moved around with a pump and passively drained. The nuclear power plant is encapsulated in a hull, built in a shipyard, towed to a shallow water site, ballasted to the seabed.
EAI said the TMSR-500 will demonstrate a way to solve Indonesia’s energy needs with a non-intermittent source of power that is carbon-free, low cost and safe.
Unlike all current nuclear reactors, the fuel is in liquid form. It can be moved around with a pump and passively drained. The nuclear power plant is encapsulated in a hull, built in a shipyard, towed to a shallow water site, ballasted to the seabed.
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