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South Korean firms invest $250 million in TerraPower
U.S. nuclear technology company TerraPower announced yesterday the close of a $750 million equity raise—one of the largest advanced-nuclear investment drives to date, according to the announcement—with $250 million of that contributed by South Korean firms SK Inc. and SK Innovation.
Both firms are subsidiaries of the Seoul-based conglomerate SK Group, South Korea’s second-largest conglomerate, after Samsung Group.
R. Latta, J. Vollmer, M. J. Hackett, G. Povirk
Transactions | Volume 106 | Number 1 | June 2012 | Pages 1207-1208
Embedded Topical Meeting: Nuclear Fuel and Structural Materials for the Next Generation Nuclear Reactors (NFSM 2012) | Modeling - I: Thermomechanics and Transport