The USA and Indonesia have announced a strategic partnership to help Indonesia develop its nuclear energy programme, supporting Indonesia's interest in deploying small modular reactor technology to meet its energy security and climate goals.
France-based testing, inspection and certification services provider Bureau Veritas has entered into an agreement with ThorCon for the technology qualification and subsequent development of a 500 MWe floating ThorCon molten salt reactor (TMSR-500) to be deployed in Indonesia.
Spanish engineering firm Empresarios Agrupados has been named as architect engineer for the 500 MWe floating ThorCon molten salt reactor to be deployed in Indonesia.