Top 10 Power Industry News Stories of 2021

In late September, Terrestrial Energy unveiled an upgraded 390-MWe design of its Integral Molten Salt Reactor (IMSR®) power plant to meet utility requirements and boost its cost-competitiveness as part of an effort to ramp up its candidacy for deployment at Ontario Power Generation’s (OPG’s) Darlington Nuclear Generating Station. The Canadian firm also announced a series of developments that could further its bid to commercialise the Generation IV small modular reactor (SMR) technology and begin operating its first plant by 2028.