The objective of this project was to determine if currently available technology can be used to modernize the PSP to a level of cost-effectiveness to realize the potential cost saving in the nuclear fuel cycle.
Elysium intended to demonstrate the viability, safety, and economic improvement of using spent nuclear fuel and plutonium in molten chloride salt fast reactor fuel salt. A main objective was to eliminate waste and close the fuel cycle, thereby minimizing proliferation, in addition to providing dispatchable power complementary to renewables.
General Electric-Hitachi, Argonne National Laboratory and the Idaho National Laboratory provided improved operational guidance for the current and advanced BWR off-gas system designs and identified off-gas system design improvements for use in BWR SMRs.
Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) worked with Westinghouse Electric Co. to optimize AFA steels for applications specific to LFRs, as reliable materials for key components such as fuel rod cladding, heat exchangers, reactor internals and the reactor vessel.
This project will enable NexDefense to evaluate their existing software on a production nuclear test bed, hence laying the path for future commercial adoption.
The objective of this project was to measure thermophysical property data for molten salt compositions characteristic of those proposed for use in the ThorCon molten salt reactor. The measured property data support reactor design activities and safety case development.
The objective of this project is to complete the necessary irradiation testing required and accelerate the retirement of risk related to qualification of nuclear environment nitrate salts. It is expected that the results of this project will significantly advance the MNSR design by qualifying the radiation stability of nitrate salt coolants in a nuclear environment.
The objective of this project was to test the Enduray Vision System developed by Vega Wave Systems Inc., using 3 MeV X-rays generated by the Van de Graaff system, to assess the radiation tolerance of the system. These tests showed that the Enduray Vision System was 10× more radiation-hard than the best available commercial competitor in terms of dose rate and can easily sustain radiation dose rates and total doses seen in the most extreme commercial applications in the nuclear energy industry.
The objective of this project is to develop Terrestrial Energy USA’s high temperature gamma thermometer (HTGT) that will accurately determine IMSR® power levels under all normal and off-normal reactor operating conditions. The HTGT will ensure safe and effective control of IMSR® reactor-core power and will be applicable to other MSR designs.
Oklo Inc. (Oklo) partnered with Argonne National Laboratory to accelerate the development of open-source and modern simulation tools. The project has an industry-wide impact since it advances the state-of-art simulation to design and build advanced reactor systems.