Rod Adams reports that Terrestrial Energy is developing an Integral Molten Salt Reactor (iMSRTM). He noted that he had last provided information to the Nuclear Energy Insider annual summit two years ago when the conference occurred in Charlotte, North Carolina. During the period since that report, his company has been making steady progress towards commercialization. Terrestrial Energy has a specific way of defining progress towards commercialization in the nuclear energy development enterprise by entering into the first phase of the reactor regulatory process in Canada by deciding to submit its design for a vendor design review in February 2016. That process, which is scheduled to be completed 18 months after acceptance, is a voluntary step that developers can take to obtain an overall assessment of the vendor nuclear power plant design against the most recent CNSC design requirements for new nuclear power plants in Canada.
Terrestrial Energy USA has also notified the U. S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission of its intention to submit a design certification application during fiscal year 2019. The licensing activities are supported by a team of about 40 engineers and license specialists who are focused on completing the required product engineering and taking the necessary regulatory steps in a phased manner so that they can provide an increased level of certainty of the design and its functioning. The petrochemical industry is not the only target market for vast quantities of heat or a combination of heat plus electricity. Desalination, Irish said, is a very important sector for the Terrestrial Energy technology.
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