Advanced Reactors / Thorizon Gets €10 Million Grant In France For ‘Accelerating’ Molten Salt Project

Company hopes to deploy pilot plant by 2035

Thorizon Gets €10 Million Grant In France For ‘Accelerating’ Molten Salt Project
A mockup of Thorizon's thorium molten salt reactor design. Image courtesy Thorizon.

Dutch-French startup Thorizon has been awarded €10m ($10.8m) in grant funding by the French government for accelerating the development of its Thorizon One molten salt small modular reactor design.

Thorizon said the funding was awarded by the government’s France 2030 investment plan focused on innovative nuclear reactors.

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