Canada-based Terrestrial Energy has awarded US technology company L3Harris Technologies a contract to develop an engineering and operator training simulator for the integral molten salt reactor (IMSR), a Generation IV nuclear power plant.
The IMSR power plant simulator is being built at L3Harris’ facility in Montreal, Canada, and will be delivered to Terrestrial Energy’s Oakville, Ontario facility in 2021. It will provide Terrestrial Energy with a high-fidelity platform to simulate and visualise all major IMSR reactor and power plant functions. The simulator will support engineering activities and, subsequently, operator training.
The IMSR power plant simulator is being built at L3Harris’ facility in Montreal, Canada, and will be delivered to Terrestrial Energy’s Oakville, Ontario facility in 2021. It will provide Terrestrial Energy with a high-fidelity platform to simulate and visualise all major IMSR reactor and power plant functions. The simulator will support engineering activities and, subsequently, operator training.
In addition to modelling and testing the simulator, L3Harris will provide its Orchid simulation environment and training to Terrestrial Energy for further simulator development.
In December 2019, the Canadian Nuclear Safety Commission and the US Nuclear Regulatory Commission chose the IMSR for the first joint technical review of an advanced, non-light-water nuclear reactor technology.
Terrestrial Energy, established in 2013, is proposing to build a 195-MW IMSR at Chalk River in Canada. It wants to commission the first IMSR power plants in the late 2020s.
