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Flibe Energy has worked to advance the technology for liquid-fluoride thorium reactors (LFTRs) since its incorporation in April 2011. Its objectives for modular reactor design and its plans for manufacturing and deployment of these reactors will be described. Flibe Energy has also undertaken a feasibility study of LFTR technology along with its partner Teledyne Brown Engineering. This study will be conducted under the auspices of the Electric Power Research Institute (EPRI) and Southern Company Services (SCS). The outcome of the study will be an estimate of the levelized cost-of-electricity (LCOE) from a 250-MWe modular LFTR built in the 2030 timeframe.
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Sorensen, K. (2016). Liquid-Fluoride Thorium Reactor Development Strategy. In: Revol, JP., Bourquin, M., Kadi, Y., Lillestol, E., de Mestral, JC., Samec, K. (eds) Thorium Energy for the World. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-26542-1_16
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