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GE unit invests with KGAL in 50-Mw Spanish concentrated solar power plant featuring molten salt energy storage

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million in a 50-megawatt parabolic trough concentrated solar power plant using molten salt energy storage in Torre de Miguel Sesmero, Badajoz, Spain. ACS has built more than €2 billion worth of concentrated solar power facilities with molten salt storage in Spain.

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SDTC awards C$1.5M to support Molten Salt Catalyzed Gasification for hydrogen production; targeting reduced GHG footprint for oil sands synthetic crude

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million investment from Sustainable Development Technology Canada to support the development and commercialization of a new hydrogen manufacturing technology called Molten Salt Catalyzed Gasification (MSG), originally developed at the US Idaho National Laboratory (INL). A consortium led by Canada-based Western Hydrogen Ltd. Background.

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CEA spins out two SMR start-ups: Hexana and Stellaria

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An adjoining conversion system will allow it to produce electricity as needed and flexibly to compete with gas-fired power plants but also to supply heat directly to nearby energy-intensive industries. Stellaria aims to develop a molten chloride salt reactor (MSR). MSRs use molten salts as the heat transfer fluid.

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Samsung Heavy and Seaborg to develop floating nuclear power plant combined with hydrogen and ammonia plants

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Samsung Heavy Industries (SHI) and Seaborg signed a partnership agreement to develop floating nuclear power plants based on Seaborg’s inherently safe Compact Molten Salt Reactor (CMSR). The floating nuclear power plant comes as a turn-key product, ready to be moored at an industrial harbor.

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Canadian partners to repurpose lab staff parking lot for SMR project

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The MMR, developed by Ultra Safe Nuclear Corporations (USNC) ( earlier post ) includes a nuclear plant, which contains an MMR High Temperature Gas-Cooled Reactor that provides process heat to an adjacent plant, via a molten salt heat exchange system. The MMR has an operating life-span of 20 years.

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ARPA-E to award $27M for advanced nuclear reactor systems operational technology: GEMINA

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The twins will be paired with the reactor cavity cooling system of Framatome’s Steam Cycle High-Temperature Gas-Cooled Reactor. The BWRX-300 is a small modular reactor designed to provide flexible energy generation that is cost-competitive with natural gas-fired plants.

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The Case for Nuclear Cargo Ships

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Nearly all of the world’s ship fleet still runs on diesel fuel, with about a quarter of new ships on order being built to run on somewhat lower-carbon alternatives like liquefied natural gas, methanol, or hybrid propulsion. Shipping uses over 300 million tonnes of fossil fuels every year, producing 3 percent of greenhouse gas emissions.