The Department of Energy will select industry partners to build two next-generation reactors, such as the molten salt cooled reactor (above) being designed by Terrestrial Energy USA.
By Adrian ChoIn the latest effort to revive the United States’s flagging nuclear industry, the Department of Energy (DOE) aims to select and help build two new prototype nuclear reactors within 7 years, the agency announced last week.
The reactors would be the centerpiece of DOE’s new Advanced Reactor Demonstration Program, which will receive $230 million this fiscal year.
Each would be built as a 50-50 collaboration with an industrial partner and ultimately could receive up to $4 billion in funding from DOE.“This can be a game-changer,” says Jacopo Buongiorno,