Kairos Power to Build First US Molten-Salt Reactor in Over 50 Years (businessinsider.com)
That benefit, and others, is why the US Nuclear Regulatory Commission just issued the first permit to construct a non-water-cooled nuclear plant.
Kairos Power CEO Mike Laufer told Bloomberg it would be the first since 1968.
Kairos Power is the company that plans to build a test plant it calls Hermes, which is set to be cooled by molten fluoride salt in Oak Ridge, Tennessee, by 2027.
The first version of the plant won't provide electricity, but the company hopes its successor, Hermes 2, will by 2028.