Samsung, Seaborg partnership on floating nuclear reactors : New Nuclear

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The Memorandum of Understanding is to manufacture and sell turnkey power plants combining Samsung Heavy Industry's ship-building expertise and the Danish company's Compact Molten Salt Reactor. It also covers development of hydrogen production plants and ammonia plants.
Samsung, Seaborg partnership on floating nuclear reactors

08 April 2022

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The Memorandum of Understanding is to manufacture and sell turnkey power plants combining Samsung Heavy Industry's ship-building expertise and the Danish company's Compact Molten Salt Reactor (CMSR). It also covers development of hydrogen production plants and ammonia plants.

How a 200 MWe Power Barge could look (Image: Seaborg)

Seaborg's design is for modular CMSR power barges that can produce between 200 MW and 800 MW of electricity, with an operational life of 24 years. Instead of having solid fuel rods that need constant cooling, the CMSR's fuel is mixed in a liquid salt that acts as a coolant, which means that it will simply…
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