American energy department is mixing to cooperate by the company that Biergaici founds with power company Southern, develop reactor of small-sized nucleus report, this kind of reactor is cheaper than their large and congener product, more efficient.
Zhou San turns energy department late civil say, "Frit salt nuclear reactor is restarting, can provide power for American the sources of energy " , return notes appended to a book the sketch map of power plant module of a piece of similar batteries.
Zhou Si, nuclear industry expresses to support to this one effort. Institute hair turns nuclear energy say, new nuclear reactor " the system of the sources of energy that makes future possibly, because be below Gates' support, peaceful draws the sources of energy (the company such as TerraPower) is devoting oneself to to design and build them " .
American energy department described laboratory of state of its oak mountain in detail, how does the lab cooperate with Southern company with other federal, latter is a large coal company that has many nuclear power plant, and how check with Gates' TerraPower and development uses liquefacient sodium one kind " as refrigerant and fuel " reactor.
Reactor of these liquid state metal are called sometimes nuclear battery, because they are small-sized, independent unit, theoretic can deploy is in anyplace, although be in,the version of oak mountain test needs permanent structure and crust it seems that.
2016, terraPower obtained energy department the award of 40 million dollar, in order to push this project.
So far, energy department already invested the cost share capital of more than 28 million dollar for this project, use at the data that identify and uses in test reactor.
Southern and TerraPower are in the inchoate design phase of the test at present, by oak mountain, idaho state laboratory, fan De compares Er spy university and support of electric power institute, in order to evaluate the commercial use of reactor of liquid state natrium.
These two companies predict to will develop a test that costs 20 million dollar 2019, this will conduce to the safe system of reactor of test and verify, in order to obtain the permissive attestation of nuclear management committee.
The course checks, southern and TerraPower plan were developed 2030 1, 100 million are developed before made of baked clay prototype and the license checks reactor.
