A Houston-based company is set to build an innovative high-temperature gas-cooled reactor at an experiment station in Texas. ZettaJoule will build ZJ0 reactor that may process heat at temperatures up to 1,742 degrees Fahrenheit (950° Celsius).
For this, a deal has been signed between ZettaJoule and the Texas A&M Engineering Experiment Station (TEES), a state agency which is part of the Texas A&M University System.
ZettaJoule to build its ZJ0 reactor
ZettaJoule would build its ZJ0 reactor and its advanced technology is based on decades of safe proven operations at Japan’s High Temperature Engineering Test Reactor.
“Texas has always powered this country, and the Texas A&M University System is helping power what comes next,” said Texas A&M University System Chancellor Glenn Hegar…