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Sandia progressing to demo stage with supercritical CO2 Brayton-cycle turbines; up to 50% increase in efficiency of thermal-to-electric conversion

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—principal investigator Steve Wright of Sandia’s Advanced Nuclear Concepts group. Test results will illustrate the capability of the concept, particularly its compactness, efficiency and scalability to larger systems. The S-CO 2 system is also very compact, meaning that capital costs would be relatively low. Wright et al.