Kairos Power Breaks Ground on Salt Production Facility to Make Molten Salt Coolant for Advanced Reactors

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE The latest addition to the company’s Manufacturing Development Campus will be key to delivering the Hermes Demonstration Reactor. ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. – October 2, 2024 – Kairos Power, a leading advanced reactor developer, broke ground today on a Salt Production Facility to be constructed at the company’s newly dedicated Manufacturing Development Campus in Albuquerque, New Mexico. The facility will produce high-purity, molten salt coolant for Kairos Power advanced reactors, starting with the Hermes Low-Power Demonstration Reactor in Oak Ridge, Tennessee. Kairos Power’s fluoride salt-cooled high-temperature reactor technology (KP-FHR) is cooled by a chemically stable mixture of lithium fluoride and beryllium fluoride salts known as “Flibe.” The unique heat-transfer medium allows the reactor to operate at low pressure and plays an important role in radiological containment, which contributes to KP-FHR’s robust inherent safety and simplifies its design. Aligned with Kairos Power’s iterative development approach, the Salt Production Facility will build upon lessons learned from the company’s Molten Salt Purification Plant, which successfully produced 14 tons of unenriched Flibe for the non-nuclear Engineering Test Unit (ETU 1.0) demonstration last year. The new Salt Production Facility will employ a proprietary chemical process to produce large quantities of high-purity Flibe enriched in...

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