The US Department of Energy has announced $20m in awards for the third of three programmes under its new advanced reactor demonstration programme.
Three teams will receive FY20 funding for projects designed to help domestic private industry demonstrate advanced nuclear reactors in the US.
Advanced Reactor Concepts will receive $34.4m over 3.5 years, General Atomics will receive $31.1m over three years and Massachusetts Institute of Technology will receive $4.9m over three years. The DOE will provide matching funds of $27.5m for ARC, $24.8m for GA and $3.9m for MIT.
Three teams will receive FY20 funding for projects designed to help domestic private industry demonstrate advanced nuclear reactors in the US.
Advanced Reactor Concepts will receive $34.4m over 3.5 years, General Atomics will receive $31.1m over three years and Massachusetts Institute of Technology will receive $4.9m over three years. The DOE will provide matching funds of $27.5m for ARC, $24.8m for GA and $3.9m for MIT.
Advanced Reactor Concepts is working to design a seismically isolated advanced sodium-cooled reactor facility. General Atomics will develop a fast modular reactor conceptual design with verifications of key metrics in fuel, safety, and operational performance, and MIT will take its modular integrated gas-cooled high temperature reactor concept from a pre-conceptual stage to a conceptual stage to support commercialization.
Energy secretary Dan Brouillette said the advanced reactor demonstration programme is significant because it will enable a market for commercial reactors that are safe and affordable to both build and operate in the near- and mid-term.
