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Business in Vancouver: Advanced nuclear could take climate fight to the next level

By Business in Vancouver

As ministers from more than 25 countries gather in Vancouver this month for the Clean Energy Ministerial, they will be thinking about how the world can transition to clean energy economies. But decarbonizing the world electricity supply is just the beginning. At best, it would eliminate only 30% of global emissions. That’s because the transportation, industry and agriculture sectors are all huge consumers of fossil fuels, as well, and finding substitutes for those applications will be even more challenging. Fortunately, some advanced nuclear power plant designs can meet these demands without producing emissions...These next-generation reactors could arrive like the cavalry in the fight against climate change.

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BNN Bloomberg: Terrestrial Energy touts the advantages of molten salt reactor technology

By BNN Bloomberg

Terrestrial Energy CEO Simon Irish explains to BNN Bloomberg the benefits of a new type of clean energy technology, the Integral Molten Salt Reactor (IMSR). "You can do so much better technically and commercially if you embrace nuclear innovation and embrace a different reactor technology," he said.

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The Globe and Mail: International Energy Agency urges developed countries to support nuclear industries

By The Globe and Mail

Natural Resources Minister Amarjeet Sohi said the federal government continues to support Canada’s nuclear industry and, in particular, the development of new reactor technology that will allow us to build smaller, cheaper power stations. Canada is something of an outlier in the developed world...Canadian Nuclear Association president John Gorman said Canada’s continued support for nuclear represents “a huge competitive advantage” for the country by maintaining a supply chain that can be used to meet international requirements in the coming decades.

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GTM: Why advanced nuclear reactors may be here sooner than many imagine

By GreenTech Media

Advanced nuclear reactors are moving toward commercialization faster and with less government support than many realize. Their smaller size and advances in computing are helping. Almost all of the advanced reactors under development in the US are far smaller than traditional LWRs — from 10 to 100 times smaller in both electricity output and physical footprint. Smaller sizes help reduce total funding necessary for the first build, but they can also simplify the engineering, making the reactor safer and easier to model, speeding licensing and commercialization. Their size also makes advanced reactors more attractive to utilities. Funding a 2-megawatt reactor, for example, is feasible for a much broader range of utilities than a 1,000-megawatt power plant.

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World Nuclear News: Terrestrial Energy joins Generation IV Forum

By World Nuclear News

Terrestrial Energy's IMSR is designed as a modular reactor for factory fabrication, and could be used for electricity production and industrial process heat generation for uses such as use in many industrial applications, such as chemical synthesis and desalination. The company plans to commission the first IMSR power plants in the late 2020s. David LeBlanc, Terrestrial Energy's president and chief technology officer, said technical collaboration through interactions with the GIF were "invaluable" to realise the global potential for the company's MSR technology. "The GIF recognises that with nuclear innovation, we can meet the urgent global market need for clean, affordable and cost-competitive energy," he said.

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Edmonton Journal: Fear not, new nuclear reactors can solve Canada’s climate change crises

By Edmonton Journal

There is no reason to have nightmares about climate change. You will not hear this from the alarmist reports on the evening news, let alone from doom-saying activists, but there is a proven, low-carbon source of safe and abundant energy. Generation 4 nuclear reactors — including molten salt reactors now being developed by the Canadian firm Terrestrial Energy — are being designed to reduce energy poverty and push billions of the world’s poorest people towards prosperity.

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MIT Technology Review: 10 Breakthrough Technologies 2019, by Bill Gates

By MIT Technology Review

“New-wave nuclear power” designs are “promising to make this power source safer and cheaper,” reads the cover story in MIT Technology Review's 10 Breakthrough Technologies 2019 issue, curated by Bill Gates. “Developers of generation IV fission designs, such as Canada’s Terrestrial Energy…have entered into R&D partnerships with utilities, aiming for grid supply by the 2020s.”

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MIT Technology Review: The new, safer nuclear reactors that might help stop climate change

By MIT Technology Review

Another generation IV variant, the molten-salt reactor, is safer than earlier designs because it can cool itself even if the system loses power completely. Canadian company Terrestrial Energy plans to build a 190 MW plant in Ontario, with its first reactors producing power before 2030 at a cost it says can compete with natural gas.

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Forbes: Terrestrial Energy Describes Progress Towards Commercializing Advanced Small Modular Reactor

Forbes: Salt Is A Pillar Of Our Nuclear Future

By Forbes

Terrestrial Energy, a Canadian advanced nuclear reactor company, is on its way to making their innovative design a reality. The key advantage of this GenIV reactor design is that it uses molten salt to carry the fuel as well as cool the system. At first glance, that might seem odd. But molten salt, with the uranium dissolved in it, can operate at low-pressure and doesn’t need chemical or mechanical driving forces which can cause problems. The IMSR can be maintained and operated with relative simplicity, important for an industrial reactor with potential for global applications. The power plant can be sized from small to large. The reactor is in a permanently sealed modular core-unit, that includes multiple redundant heat exchangers and pumps. It cannot melt down.

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World Nuclear News: IMSR materials to be tested at Petten

By World Nuclear News

NRG is to carry out testing of materials, including graphite, for key components of Terrestrial Energy's Integral Molten Salt Reactor (IMSR) power plant in the High-Flux Reactor at Petten in the Netherlands under a contract announced on 5 February. Terrestrial Energy in 2017 completed the first phase of the Canadian Nuclear Safety Commission's pre-licensing vendor review of the IMSR, and the company is planning to submit either an application for design certification or for a construction permit for the IMSR-400 by late 2019 to the US Nuclear Regulatory Commission. The company and Canadian Nuclear Laboratories are considering the feasibility of siting a commercial plant at Chalk River.

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