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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.”
Benjamin Ruiz-Yi, Lucas M. Angelette, Paul R. Beaumont
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 80 | Number 1 | January 2024 | Pages 48-54
Research Article | doi.org/10.1080/15361055.2023.2196238
Articles are hosted by Taylor and Francis Online.
The separation of tritiated sources from the exhaust stream of a nuclear fusion system remains a key area of study. While current hydrogen isotope separation technologies are effective at separating gaseous elemental hydrogen, they require additional costly and time-intensive electrolysis steps to be applied toward tritiated water. Previous work has proposed a capture and exchange method, which this work has applied to screen for an optimal weight loading of platinum onto a zeolite molecular sieve. Several samples of various weight loadings were cycled using a series of isotope exchange processes, and it was determined that a weight loading between 0.65 to 0.80 wt% Pt is optimal to separate heavier isotopes of hydrogen from a water waste stream.