Kairos to build salt plant and expand its New Mexico manufacturing campus
October 3, 2024, 12:01PMNuclear News
Kairos Power leaders, elected officials, and key partners break ground on the Salt Production Facility at the company’s Manufacturing Development Campus in Mesa del Sol, N.M. (Photo: Kairos Power)
Kairos Power broke ground yesterday on a Salt Production Facility at the company’s newly dedicated Manufacturing Development Campus during an event at a sprawling site in Mesa del Sol, N.M., just south of Albuquerque. The new facility will produce the FLiBe (a mixture of lithium fluoride and beryllium fluoride salts) needed to cool the advanced reactors Kairos Power plans to build, starting with its Hermes nonpower demonstration reactor in Oak Ridge, Tenn., and could be operational and producing salt in 2026, according to an October 3 Department of Energy news release.
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