Dresden Nuclear Power Station, Unit 2 issued the following announcement on March 28.
The Nuclear Regulatory Commission has received an application from Oklo Power LLC for
a license to build and operate the company’s Aurora compact fast reactor in Idaho. The application
is now available for public review on the NRC website.
Oklo filed the application on March 11, seeking NRC approval of an advanced reactor
cooled by a substance other than water. The proposed Aurora design would use heat pipes to
transport heat from the reactor core to a power conversion system, which then would be used to
generate electricity. The NRC staff began pre-application discussions with Oklo in November 2016.
The NRC staff is determining whether the application has sufficient information to complete
the agency’s review. If the application is determined to be complete, the staff will docket it and
publish an opportunity to request a hearing on the Combined License application. Information about
Combined Licenses is available on the NRC website.
Original source can be found here.
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