Oakville, Ontario: Terrestrial Energy, a vendor of Advanced Reactor power plants, and the University of New Brunswick (UNB), announced March 9 having entered into a contract for validation and verification work for an Integral Molten Salt Reactor (IMSR™) that the company is developing.
Designed to produce both electricity and useful heat for industrial processes, Terrestrial Energy says the IMSR “is capable of driving the rapid global decarbonization of the primary energy system by displacing fossil fuel combustion across a broad front. It is complementary to renewable power sources and ideal for distributed power systems on existing grids.” The company says the IMSR will be brought to global markets in the 2020s.
The Centre for Nuclear Energy Research (CNER) in Fredericton is a university research institute that has a formal relationship with Canadian Nuclear Laboratories (CNL), which maintains staff on-site at UNB. CNER says the relationship helps ensure that CNER can undertake activities that are compliant with nuclear regulatory standards.
Dr. William Cook, Professor of Chemical Engineering at UNB, and Director of CNER, along with his team at CNER, last year completed the second phase of R&D work for Super-Critical Water Reactor (SCWR) development for the Generation-IV International Forum (GIF) and look forward to focusing on Terrestrial Energy's IMSR, which is another GIF-recognized reactor system.