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US-based Kairos Power and the Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA) on 6 May announced plans to collaborate on deploying a low-power demonstration reactor at the East Tennessee Technology Park in Oak Ridge, Tennessee. As part of this agreement, TVA will provide engineering, operations, and licensing support to help Kairos Power deploy its low-power demonstration reactor, named Hermes.
- Source: NEI Magazine
- Date: Wednesday, 12 May 2021
- Original article: neimagazine.com/news/newstva-and-kairos-to-collaborate-on-hermes-smr-8735633
The Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA) is to collaborate with the University of Tennessee, Knoxville (UT) to evaluate the development of a new generation of advanced nuclear reactors at TVA's Clinch River site. TVA has an early site permit from the US Nuclear Regulatory Commission for two or more small modular reactors at the site but has not yet taken a decision to build.
- Source: World Nuclear News
- Date: Friday, 10 April 2020
- Original article: world-nuclear-news.org/Articles/TVA-and-University-of-Tennessee-agree-SMR-collabor