DOE Selects Sodium-Cooled Fast Reactor Design for Versatile Test Reactor in Idaho

The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) recently issued a record of decision (ROD) to build a sodium-cooled fast test reactor at Idaho National Laboratory (INL). If appropriated by Congress, the Versatile Test Reactor (VTR) would be the first fast spectrum test reactor to operate in the United States in nearly three decades.

The VTR project would help modernize U.S. nuclear energy research and development infrastructure and dramatically accelerate the technology development for current and next-generation reactors.

The U.S. will need both existing and new advanced reactors to meet the nation’s goal of net-zero emissions by 2050.

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