Decarbonizing Now: The Natrium Project in Wyoming

Mark Werner is a mechanical engineer who develops and leads engineering teams that design advance reactor concepts focused on impacting future energy markets. Mark has worked in plant layout and design, reactor system and equipment design, reactor core design and fuel design in his past positions. Mark has worked for TerraPower for the last 10 years and previous to that worked on Reactor designs for the US Navy’s nuclear fleet at Knolls Atomic Power Laboratory in upstate NY. Mark has a master’s degree in Mechanical Engineering from Union College and a bachelor’s degree in Mechanical Engineering from Drexel University. Presentation Description: Mark Werner will give a short talk about the Natrium Reactor program. He will cover the key attributes of the technology and discuss how it fits into the energy mix of today and tomorrow. The talk will describe the Natrium Demonstration Project that won the Advanced Reactor Demonstration Project award from the DOE last year and is slated to be built in Wyoming.