The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission has approved construction of TerraPower’s Natrium reactor in Wyoming, ...

The TerraPower design, which it calls Natrium and has been developed jointly with GE Hitachi, has several novel features.

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The NRC on March 4 authorized a construction permit for TerraPower's Kemmerer Power Station Unit 1—the first commercial reactor approval in nearly a decade.

The UK's nuclear regulator ONR has begun formal assessment of the Natrium nuclear reactor design developed by US company TerraPower.

The Bill Gates-chaired company's Natrium 345 MWe sodium-cooled fast reactor with a molten-salt-based energy storage system has been accepted into the UK's Generic Design Assessment process.  ; ...

Core disruptive accidents (CDAs) in sodium-cooled fast reactors represent a severe class of events in which the integrity of the reactor core is rapidly compromised, leading to the dispersal of molten ...

A rendering of TerraPower's Natrium Reactor. Image courtesy TerraPower Japan Atomic Energy Agency (JAEA), Mitsubishi Heavy Industries (MHI), Mitsubishi FBR Systems (MFBR), and TerraPower have expanded ...

One of the key areas in both the Generation IV International Forum (GIF) and the IAEA programmes on innovative nuclear systems is the harmonization of safety approach, safety requirements, safety ...

Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) reports it has tested a high-temperature fission chamber prototype built by ...