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Stellaria applies to build a molten salt reactor prototype in France
French advanced reactor developer Stellaria has formally submitted an application with the French government for authorization to build a prototype of its fast breeder molten salt reactor concept, known as Stellarium.
The company, which spun out of the country’s Alternative Energies and Atomic Energy Commission (CEA) and Schneider Electric, filed an application for authorization to create (DAC) for the reactor with the government minister in charge of nuclear safety, making it the first French start-up to submit an application with the authorities for a fast-neutron reactor.
2025 ANS Winter Conference & Expo
As the twelfth director in Oak Ridge Laboratory's history, Stephen Streiffer leads more than 6,500 staff in delivering on critical national missions by leveraging the laboratory’s world-leading facilities, tools, and signature strengths in neutron science, high-performance computing, advanced materials, biology and environmental science, energy technologies, nuclear science and engineering, isotopes, and national security research.He attended Rice University and received his PhD from Stanford University and was awarded the status of Fellow in the American Physical Society in 2007.
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