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Other than "not light-water", what type of reactor is it?


Graphite-moderated core, passively cooled with sodium filled heat pipes:

https://antaresindustries.com/

It also uses a Brayton cycle generator with nitrogen instead of steam.

(See 03, 04, 06 in their schematic outline.)




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