Seaborg plans to deploy the first floating nuclear power barges by 2025
Seaborg plans to deploy the first floating nuclear power barges by 2025. Credit: Seaborg Technologies
A Danish nuclear company Seaborg Technologies is developing a new type of 200-megawatt mini nuclear reactor to be installed on modular power barges. The Compact Molten Salt Reactors (CMSR) recently passed a feasibility test by the American Bureau of Shipping (ABS), which is an important milestone towards our ambitious target to deploy the first commercial power barge by 2025.
Seaborg’s Compact Molten Salt Reactor is designed to be installed on modular power barges, providing clean and affordable electricity worldwide. The power barge design is enabling configurations with two, four, six, or eight CMSRs delivering up to 800 MW-electric or 2000 MW-thermal. The first power barges will have two reactors installed, delivering 2 x 100 MW-electric for the 24-year lifetime of the power barge. And over that lifetime, they will offset a minimum of 33,600,000 tons of CO2 compared to an equivalent coal power plant.