Hayward Tyler has shipped four high-temperature molten salt pumps for a state-of-the-art integrated effects test (IET) facility that is being developed by Southern Co and TerraPower to advance the molten chloride fast reactor (MCFR). The IET pumps, which can handle molten salt up to 750℃, will be used to investigate a number of operating scenarios within the test loop. MCFR is a fourth-generation, molten salt nuclear technology designed to enable low-cost, economy-wide decarbonization. The IET, which is based at Terra-Power's facility in Everett, Washington, USA, is a non-nuclear, externally heated multi-loop system intended to validate integrated operation of MCFR systems as well as to demonstrate multiple auxiliary MCFR functions.
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