ARC Clean Technology
🇺🇸 Washington, US · Founded 2006 · Active
Also known as ARC Clean Energy, ARC Nuclear Canada
ARC Clean Technology is a company founded in 2006 and headquartered in Washington, DC, with operations in Canada. It develops the ARC-100, a 100 MWe pool-type sodium-cooled fast reactor with metallic fuel, based on the EBR-II reactor that ran for more than 30 years at Idaho National Laboratory. ARC says it has completed both phases of the Canadian Nuclear Safety Commission's vendor design review, has applied for a licence to prepare a site in Canada, and has been in pre-licensing engagement with the US Nuclear Regulatory Commission since 2020. It is an awardee of the US Department of Energy's Advanced Reactor Demonstration Program.
- Sector
- Fission
- Technology
- Sodium fast reactor
- Role
- Reactor developer
Terms
- Sodium fast reactor
- Liquid sodium coolant with a fast, unmoderated neutron spectrum. Sodium carries heat superbly at atmospheric pressure, but burns in air and reacts violently with water. Large sodium-cooled cores can have a positive sodium void effect that the core design must offset. Fuel is typically metal alloy or mixed-oxide.