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Environment & Energy

John ONeill

(78 posts)

7. Copenhagen Atomics

Reply to NNadir (Reply #6)

Fri Jan 31, 2025, 10:45 AM

Jan 2025

To clarify, the 5 years is intervals between swapping out the core, once commercial. Fission testing at 1 MW thermal is due this year, at the Paul Scherer Institute in Switzerland; the one year test will be on one of their other test rigs in Denmark.
Thanks for the response, interesting as always.

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