TRL review
Cascade Salt Integral Loop
Horizon Center Industrial Park · Oak Ridge, Tennessee · one live offering against this project
New evidence
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- National lab result
Integral loop demonstration, 1,000 hours at temperature
ORNL/TM-2026/1184
Offered at level 6
The integral loop completed 1,000 continuous hours at 700 degrees Celsius with pump, heat exchanger and drain tank operating as a coupled system.
- Document date
- Aug 12, 2026
- Filed
- Sep 12, 2026
- Weight
- 0.80 of a possible 1.00
- Supports up to
- Level 6
Independent and well-instrumented, but a laboratory is not an operating environment.
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The proposal, step by step
6
band 5.2–6.5
superseding 5 (4.2–5.6)
- Published score stands at 5.
- The strongest supported level in the queue is 6, from 1 document.
- Proposed at 6.
- Band set at ±0.8 on 1 corroborating source.
Reproducible on purpose. The weighting table is published, the same documents produce the same proposal for every issuer, and a reviewer who departs from it has to say so in the narrative. That is a weaker claim than a model that predicts outcomes, and a much more defensible one.