US-based advanced reactor developer Kairos Power has begun construction on a new reactor-grade salt production facility at its manufacturing development campus in Albuquerque, New Mexico, the company said in a statement.
The facility will produce high-purity molten salt coolant, a key component for the company’s fluoride salt-cooled high-temperature reactor technology (KP-FHR), which will be used for the Hermes demonstrator project at Oak Ridge, Tennessee.
The KP-FHR technology is cooled by a stable mixture of lithium fluoride and beryllium fluoride salts, known as Flibe, which allows the reactor to operate at low pressure, contributing to enhanced radiological containment and the reactor’s overall safety.