HD Hyundai announced on Friday, August 22, that Executive Vice Chairman Chung Kisun met with TerraPower leadership, including ...

Turning on a nuclear plant is a little more complicated than flipping a few switches. That’s why TerraPower’s flagship ...

H D Hyundai, South Korea’s leading shipbuilding group, is deepening its ties with Bill Gates’ nuclear energy startup ...

A senior executive of HD Hyundai Co., South Korea's leading shipbuilding conglomerate, held talks with Bill Gates on cooperation in small modular reactor (SMR) projects pursued by the U.S. billionaire ...

TerraPower’s Natrium reactor is one such fast reactor, and it’s the world’s first fast reactor that not only targets commercial use, but also comes with its own grid-level storage in the ...

Natrium combines a molten sodium reactor with a 1 GWh molten salt energy storage system. Sodium offers a 785-Kelvin temperature range between its solid and gaseous states, nearly 8x that of water’s ...

Bill Gates' TerraPower Makes History with Natrium Reactor ConstructionFirst advanced nuclear reactor to move from design to construction in the Western Hemisphere.345-MW Natrium reactor with ...

The Natrium plant uses liquid sodium, whose boiling point is more than 8 times higher than water’s, so it can absorb all the extra heat generated in the nuclear core.

TerraPower is constructing the Natrium demonstration plant near a retiring coal facility at Kemmerer in Wyoming. A ground-breaking ceremony held in June this year marked the start of non-nuclear ...

Natrium technology features a 345 MWe sodium-cooled fast reactor using high-assay low-enriched uranium fuel, with a molten salt-based energy storage system that can boost the system’s output to 500 ...