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X-energy, TerraPower share updates on advanced reactor projects
The two main players of the Department of Energy’s Advanced Reactor Demonstration Program, X-energy and TerraPower, have both announced significant developments in their projects to deploy advanced commercial-scale reactors.
N. N. Skvortsova, E. V. Voronova, I. Yu. Vafin, N. S. Akhmadullina, T. E. Gayanova, A. A. Letunov, V. P. Logvinenko, A. Yu. Kolchanova, V. D. Borzosekov, A. S. Sokolov, V. D. Stepakhin, E. A. Obraztsova, O. N. Shishilov
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 81 | Number 8 | November 2025 | Pages 833-847
Research Article | doi.org/10.1080/15361055.2025.2478656
Articles are hosted by Taylor and Francis Online.
This paper presents a description of the creation of heterogeneous catalysts by plasma-chemical methods using a powerful pulsed fusion gyrotron. The microdisperse particles for catalysts are created by irradiating a mixture of copper (Cu) and dielectric (aluminum oxide, silicon oxide, titanium oxide, silicon–aluminum oxynitride) powders by the microwave radiation of a gyrotron, which initiates plasma-chemical reactions inside the mixture and in the air above it. These are complex chain reactions of self-propagating high-temperature synthesis. As a result of these reactions, microparticles of dielectrics into whose surface Cu nanoparticles are imbedded are created.