en.Wedoany.com Reported - On May 6, Terrestrial Energy, a developer of small modular nuclear plants using fourth-generation Integral Molten Salt Reactor (IMSR) technology, and Riot Platforms, an industry leader in large-scale data center and Bitcoin mining application development, announced a collaboration to jointly build a premier future data center co-located with an advanced nuclear power plant.
As partners, Riot and Terrestrial Energy will explore project opportunities at multiple candidate sites, encompassing Riot's existing facilities in Texas and Kentucky, while jointly evaluating other locations. The two parties will collaborate to customize IMSR nuclear plants for integration with data centers developed and operated by Riot. This collaboration integrates Terrestrial Energy's expertise in nuclear plant design and licensing with Riot's expertise in data center design, development, and operations. Riot's experienced data center development team has extensive experience across all phases of hyperscale data center development and delivery (design, engineering, construction, operations, marketing, and leasing, etc.). The two parties will leverage Riot's completed data center design foundation, optimized for large hyperscale tenants, to evaluate optimized configuration options for IMSR plant power supply and data center operations at candidate sites.
Terrestrial Energy's IMSR plant is well-suited for data center operations due to its design advantages. Its non-nuclear energy conversion system is located within the plant's thermal power facility, isolated from the regulated nuclear systems, providing a competitive advantage in the Small Modular Reactor (SMR) sector. This design supports hybrid energy configurations, allowing the use of natural gas or other fuels to meet specific customer needs, support early operations, and enhance system resilience during project construction.
Terrestrial Energy is developing IMSR nuclear plant projects at multiple locations across the United States, fully leveraging the siting advantages of small modular design and the ability to provide clean, high-temperature heat for efficient, low-cost power generation and direct industrial process heat utilization. Its supply chain utilizes readily available Standard Assay Low-Enriched Uranium (SALEU, with Uranium-235 content below 5%), avoiding the supply chain challenges for commercial-scale deployment associated with reliance on High-Assay Low-Enriched Uranium (HALEU, with Uranium-235 content between 15% and 20%, the fuel used by other fourth-generation reactors currently on the market).
It is reported that Terrestrial Energy is a fourth-generation nuclear plant developer, whose plants utilize its proprietary Integral Molten Salt Reactor (IMSR). The IMSR incorporates the operational advantages of molten salt reactor technology into the plant design, achieving new advancements in capital efficiency, cost, versatility, and nuclear energy supply functions.
The IMSR plant features a small modular design, enabling distributed supply of low-cost, reliable, dispatchable, clean, high-temperature industrial heat and power. It can be customized according to the needs of industrial applications such as petrochemicals, chemical synthesis, and data center operations, serving a dual-purpose energy role and expanding the scope of nuclear energy applications. Its deployment can support the growth of clean, stable heat and power, contributing to energy self-sufficiency, grid reliability, and economic growth.
Terrestrial Energy employs an innovative plant design, combining mature and reliable molten salt reactor technology with readily available and lower-cost Standard Assay Low-Enriched Uranium as fuel, to build nuclear plants with unique operational characteristics and significant commercial potential. Currently, Terrestrial Energy is collaborating with regulators, suppliers, industrial partners, and energy end-users, planning to have its first IMSR nuclear plants built, licensed, and operational by the early 2030s.
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