Kairos Power Logs 1,000 Hours of Pumped Salt Operations With its Non-Nuclear Engineering Test Unit

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE KAIROS POWER LOGS 1,000 HOURS OF PUMPED SALT OPERATIONS WITH ITS NON-NUCLAR ENGINEERING TEST UNIT ALBUQUERQUE, N.M., – January 10, 2024 – Kairos Power has successfully completed 1,000 hours of pumped salt operations with its non-nuclear Engineering Testing Unit (ETU) at the company’s testing and manufacturing facility in Albuquerque, N.M. This achievement arrives on the heels of operators loading 12 metric tons of a molten fluoride salt coolant known as “Flibe” into ETU, making it the largest Flibe system ever built. Flibe – a chemically stable mixture of lithium, fluorine, and beryllium – is intrinsic to Kairos Power’s advanced reactor technology. Aligned with the company’s iterative development approach, the non-nuclear ETU was built to demonstrate the design and integration of key systems, structures, and components, exercise the supply chain, and accelerate Kairos Power’s experience with large-scale Flibe operations. Lessons learned from the ETU program will inform the design and operation of the planned Hermes demonstration reactor and future deployments. As operations progress, Kairos Power is collecting an abundance of data from ETU through rigorous testing of its constituent systems. Highlights have included the removal and inspection of surrogate fuel pebbles via the integrated Pebble Handling and Storage...

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