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Oklo signs MOU to partner with Korea Hydro & Nuclear Power
Oklo cofounder and CEO Jacob DeWitte and KHNP CEO Joo-ho Whang following the virtual signing of an MOU. (Source: Oklo)
Oklo announced last week that it hopes to expand development and global deployment of its advanced nuclear technology through a new partnership with Korea Hydro & Nuclear Power.
The memorandum of understanding includes plans for the companies to advance standard design development and global deployment of Oklo’s planned Aurora Powerhouse, a microreactor that would generate 15 MW and be scalable to 50 MWe. Oklo said each unit can operate for 10 years or longer before refueling.
Oklo and KHNP plan to cooperate on early-stage project development, including manufacturability assessments and planning of major equipment, supply chain development for balance-of-plant systems, and constructability assessments and planning.
M. H. Anderson, R. Bonazza, M. L. Corradini
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 44 | Number 2 | September 2003 | Pages 256-260
Technical Paper | Fusion Energy - Advanced Designs | doi.org/10.13182/FST03-A343
Articles are hosted by Taylor and Francis Online.
Several advanced fusion reactor design concepts for MFE power generation incorporate liquid metal as a protective layer or heat transfer medium. The presence of high magnetic fields, necessary to confine the plasma fuel in the core region of the device, effect these liquid metal systems. Recently computational methods have just begun to be able to give some insight into the effects of these high magnetic fields on the liquid metal systems, however experimental data is needed to verify the results of the computations and determine feasibility where computational methods are not possible due to computer resources or the lack of suitable models to deal with turbulence suppression. A series of experiments conducted with helium gas injection (16 - 85 cm3/s) through a 1.6 mm injector into a 2.54 cm liquid metal pool (NaK) with a horizontal magnetic field from 0-6T have been conducted to evaluate a particular reactor power extraction process and to serve as a data base for computational comparison.