Amici, Americani, Compatriotae
Terrestrial Energy has informed the US Nuclear Regulatory Commission of its plan to get its integral molten salt reactor licensed. It intends to submit its Application for Design Certification in late 2019. This type of reactor was built and operated at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory in the early 1960s. Please see videos below. NuScale Power, LLC will now have some serious competition, and in a free market with a level regulatory playing field competition is always good for the consumer. Of course we wish both companies all success in becoming commercially viable - that's the whole point of the free market: to offer the consumer (or customer) safe and reliable choices which can be made based economic common sense and NOT on Tiberius Caesar prejudicing the outcome in the hostile regulatory constriction of corporate socialism. Unfortunately in these United States the only thing for which the regulations of the US NRC are designed and intended are light water reactors such as PWRs and BWRs. The US NRC has produced quite a long list of Policy Issues Associated with Licensing Advanced Reactor Designs. Of note to the reader are Presentations for DOE-NRC Workshop on Advanced Non-Light Water Reactors - June 7-8, 2016. One would hope that President Trump's declaration to reduce regulatory burden by 75% bears fruit. The Nuclear Energy Institute (an industry trade group) has, however, a Strategic Plan for Advanced Non-Light Water Reactor Development and Commercialization, but such plans are only as good as permitted by the socialist autocracy of the liberal progressive government which Barack Hussein Obama left to President Trump's inheritance.
Nevertheless, without further ado, here are the two videos from Terrestrial Energy.
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