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Future Google supplier Kairos gets approval to build two small nuclear reactors
The reactors are scaled down versions of what Kairos hopes to ultimately build to supply Google with electricity.
The fluoride-salt cooled, high-temperature reactors are scaled down versions of what Kairos hopes to ultimately build to supply Google with electricity starting in 2030. The small modular reactor (SMR) startup, which has received a $303 million award from the U.S. Department of Energy, has been working for years to refine its molten salt cooling system. Altogether, those features are enough to qualify Kairos’s designs as “Generation IV” reactors, a classification system created by an international organization backed by national nuclear agencies.
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