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Bill Gates’ Nuclear Reactor Company Adds Molten Salt Storage to Its SMR System – Greentech Media News
TerraPower and GE Hitachi Nuclear Energy launch the Natrium concept, which pairs five hours of storage and a sodium fast reactor.
TerraPower, the Bill Gates-backed nuclear innovation firm, has launched a new small modular reactor system paired with a molten salt storage unit.
The new concept, dubbed Natrium, is being developed in partnership with GE Hitachi Nuclear Energy. According to the pair, it could be used to boost a 345-megawatt small modular reactor (SMR) to around 500 megawatts for a period of up to five hours.
TerraPower, founded by Gates in 2008, is developing two separate SMR technologies. The sodium fast rea…
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