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TerraPower outlines Natrium design, timeline and HALEU supply risk in briefing to Virginia energy group
Summary
Jeff Nabid of TerraPower briefed an energy authority meeting on the company’s Natrium demonstration: a 345‑MW sodium‑cooled reactor paired with 500 MW/5.5‑hour molten‑salt storage, a seven‑year ARDP deployment deadline, a roughly $1 billion nth‑of‑a‑kind target cost and a key fuel‑supply uncertainty around HALEU.
Jeff Nabid, director of external affairs for TerraPower, told a Virginia energy authority meeting that the company’s Natrium demonstration project is a compact, dispatchable advanced nuclear design intended to pair a 345‑megawatt sodium‑cooled reactor with large molten‑salt thermal storage.
Nabid said Natrium’s integrated storage can hold about 500 megawatts of dispatchable output for roughly five and a half hours, enabling the plant to operate at base load or ramp to meet peaks. He described the plant footprint as about 44 acres and said the company is targeting an nth‑of‑a‑kind capital cost on the order of $1 billion for the reactor island and balance of plant.
Why it matters: Natrium is one of two winners of the Department of Energy’s Advanced Reactor Demonstration Program (ARDP), a federal 50/50 cost‑share award. As a demonstration, TerraPower must put the reactor in service within seven years of signing the agreement; Nabid said that timeline would put an initial…
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