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TerraPower begins construction on Natrium power plant in Kemmerer
Construction has officially begun on TerraPower’s first Natrium power plant, in Kemmerer, Wyo. The company expects this demonstration facility—featuring a 345-MWe sodium-cooled fast reactor with an integrated molten salt–based heat storage system, which can temporarily boost power output to 500 MWe—to become the first “utility-scale advanced nuclear power plant” in the United States.
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With more than 60 years operating in the U.S., Orano USA is a leading technology and services provider in commercial and federal markets for advanced reactors, uranium conversion and enrichment, used nuclear fuel storage and transport, site cleanup and remediation, and useful radioactive isotopes.