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{{short description|Private Danish company developing molten salt technology}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=December 2019}}
{{Infobox company
| name = Copenhagen Atomics
| logo = Copenhagen Atomics.png
| logo_size = 300px
| type = [[Private company|Private]]
| industry = [[Nuclear power]]
| foundation = {{Start date and age|2014|8|25}}
| products = {{unbulleted list
| Molten Salt Loops
| Molten Salt Pumps
| Molten Salt Measurement Equipment
| Purified Salt
}}
| hq_location_city = [[Copenhagen]]
| hq_location_country = [[Denmark]]
| homepage = [http://www.copenhagenatomics.com/ www.copenhagenatomics.com]
}}

'''Copenhagen Atomics''' is a [[Denmark|Danish]] [[molten salt]] technology company developing mass manufacturable [[Molten Salt Reactor|molten salt reactors]]. The company is pursuing [[small modular reactor|small modular]], [[molten salt|molten fuel salt]], [[thorium fuel cycle]], [[thermal reactor|thermal spectrum]], [[breeder reactor|breeder reactors]] using separated [[plutonium]] from [[spent nuclear fuel]] as the initial fissile load for the first generation of reactors.<ref>{{cite web |title=Advances in Small Modular Reactor Technology Developments |url=https://aris.iaea.org/Publications/SMR-Book_2018.pdf |publisher=International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) |accessdate=22 December 2019}}</ref>

Copenhagen Atomics' headquarters are co-located with [[Alfa Laval]] in Copenhagen.<ref>{{cite web |title=Alfa Laval Innovation House, Copenhagen |url=https://www.alfalaval.dk/info/denmark/innovation-house/ |publisher=Alfa Laval |accessdate=22 December 2019}}</ref>

==History==
Copenhagen Atomics was founded in 2014 by a group of scientists and engineers meeting at [[Technical University of Denmark]] and around the [[Copenhagen metropolitan area|greater Copenhagen area]] for discussions on [[thorium]] and [[molten salt reactors]], who later incorporated in 2015.<ref>{{cite AV media |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tHO1ebNxhVI|title=Making Safe Nuclear Power from Thorium - Thomas Jam Pedersen - TEDxCopenhagen|date=15 November 2016|publisher=YouTube |accessdate=22 December 2019}}</ref>
In 2016, Copenhagen Atomics was part of MIMOSA, a European nuclear molten salt research consortium.<ref>{{cite book|chapter=Copenhagen Atomics waste burner|chapter-url=https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/B9780081011263000233|publisher=ScienceDirect|doi=10.1016/B978-0-08-101126-3.00023-3 |access-date=22 December 2019|title=Molten Salt Reactors and Thorium Energy |year=2017 |last1=Pedersen |first1=Thomas J. |pages=599–607 |isbn=9780081011263 }}</ref>

Copenhagen Atomics became the first private company in 2017, to offer a commercial molten salt loop.<ref>{{cite web|title=Molten Salt Loop 40 liter|url=https://www.amazon.com/Molten-Salt-Loop-40-liter/dp/B077782YD6|website=Amazon|accessdate=22 December 2019}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|title=Copenhagen Atomics - Salt Loop & Laser Induced Breakdown Spectroscopy - Delft Demo|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LaeK9u0pWVA|website=YouTube|accessdate=22 December 2019}}</ref>

By the end of 2022, Copenhagen Atomics finished a full-size prototype reactor. The prototype is a full-scale test platform, to test the system in its entirety, with water as its medium. In 2023 a full-scale prototype molten salt reactor will be built to test the entire system with non-radioactive molten salts.<ref>[https://www.nucnet.org/news/danish-company-to-begin-testing-thorium-prototype-11-2-2022], NucNet.</ref>

In May 2023, Copenhagen Atomics signed a memorandum of understanding with the [[Scandinavia|Scandinavian]] companies [[Topsoe]], [[Alfa Laval]] and [[Aalborg CSP]], and [[Indonesia|Indonesian]] companies [[Pupuk Kalimantan Timur]] and [[Pertamina|Pertamina New and Renewable Energy]], with the prospect of establishing a [[green ammonia]] plant in [[Bontang]], Indonesia. The plant will be capable of producing 1 million tonnes of ultra-low emission [[ammonia]] annually, which will save the emission of 1.7 million tonnes of [[carbon dioxide]] per year.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.investmentmonitor.ai/news/danish-companies-sign-mou-on-nuclear-deal-with-indonesia/ |title=Danish companies sign MOU on nuclear deal with Indonesia |website=investmentmonitor.ai |date=2023-05-22 |access-date=2023-06-07}}</ref> 

==Research and development==
Copenhagen Atomics is pursuing a hardware-driven iterative component-by-component approach to reactor development, instead of a full design license and approval approach. Copenhagen Atomics is actively developing and testing valves, pumps, heat exchangers, measurement systems, salt chemistry and purification systems, and control systems and software for molten salt applications.<ref name="youtube.com">{{cite AV media |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-J70XaXbmws |title=Copenhagen Atomics - Thomas Jam Pedersen @ TEAC10 |date=17 November 2019 |publisher=YouTube |accessdate=22 December 2019}}</ref>
The company has also developed the world's only canned molten salt pump and are developing an [[Magnetic Bearings|active electromagnetic bearing]] canned molten salt pump.<ref name="youtube.com"/>

Copenhagen Atomics offers many of their technologies commercially available to the market. This includes pumped molten salt loops for use in molten salt reactor research, as well as highly purified salts for high temperature [[concentrated solar power]], [[Thermal_energy_storage#Molten-salt_technology|molten salt energy storage]], and molten salt chemistry research.<ref>{{cite web |title=Products |url=https://www.copenhagenatomics.com/products/ |publisher=Copenhagen Atomics |accessdate=22 December 2019}}</ref>

== Environmental Impact ==

According to the website Thorium Energy World: "The CAWB [ed. Copenhagen Atomics Waste Burner] will use thorium to burn out actinides from spent nuclear fuel in order to convert long-lived [[radioactive waste]] into short-lived radioactive waste, while producing large amounts of energy and jobs in present time."<ref>{{cite web|title=Copenhagen Atomics|url=http://www.thoriumenergyworld.com/copenhagen-atomics.html|publisher=Thorium Energy World|accessdate=9 June 2021}}</ref>

== See also ==
* [[Molten Salt Reactor]]
* [[Molten Salt Reactor Experiment]]
* [[Liquid fluoride thorium reactor]]
* [[Thorium]]

== References ==
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==External links==
*[http://www.copenhagenatomics.com/ Official website]
*[https://www.linkedin.com/company/copenhagen-atomics/ Linkedin]
*[https://www.youtube.com/c/CopenhagenAtomics YouTube]
*[https://github.com/copenhagenatomics GitHub]

[[Category:Nuclear reactors]]
[[Category:Thorium]]
[[Category:Technology companies based in Copenhagen]]
[[Category:Danish companies established in 2015]]
[[Category:Companies based in Gladsaxe Municipality]]