Nuclear Engineering International
Summary
US-based Kairos Power and Google have signed a Master Plant Development Agreement seeking to deploy a fleet of advanced nuclear power projects totalling 500 MWe by 2035.
Kairos Power is following a “rapid iterative development” approach to bring to market its Hermes low-power reactor that the company is using to advance the development of its KP-FHR fluoride salt-cooled high-temperature reactor technology. This means designing, building, and testing multiple prototypes, learning lessons, and improving processes along the way. ETU 1.0 was a full-scale, electrically heated prototype of Hermes. The next iteration, ETU 2.0, is already underway in Albuquerque and will focus on demonstrating the modular design of the reactor. After that, ETU 3.0 will be built in Oak Ridge, Tennessee adjacent to the eventual site of the Hermes reactor.
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