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Terrestrial Energy, Schneider partner on molten salt reactor
Terrestrial Energy and Schneider Electric are teaming to deploy Terrestrial Energy's integral molten salt reactor (IMSR) to provide zero-emission power to industrial facilities and large data centers.
The companies signed a memorandum of understanding in April to jointly develop commercial opportunities with high-energy users looking for reliable, affordable, and zero-carbon baseload supply. Terrestrial Energy said that working with Schneider “offers solutions to the major energy challenges faced by data center operators and many heavy industries operating a wide range of industrial processes such as hydrogen, ammonia, aluminum, and steel production.”
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Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 29 | Number 3 | May 1996 | Pages 405-408
Technical Paper | Nuclear Reactions in Solid | doi.org/10.13182/FST96-A30728
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Screening of Coulomb interactions by itinerant deuterons contributes to the enhancement of the deuteron-deuteron reaction rate in some metal deutendes and fast deuteron conductors such as PdDx, DyNax WO3, SrCeO3: Y, Nb, and so forth. We propose that the deuteron screening mechanism also gives rise to the anomalous isotope effect in the PdD(H) system and to the increase in the superconducting transition temperature Tc of DxYBa2Cu3O7−δ. In conjunction with the currently known factors that govern superconductivity, the deuteron screening might lead to a new class of superconductors.