Green River – BWXT – Tata Chemicals Soda Ash Partners
Tata Chemicals North America is one of the world’s leading producers of high quality soda ash. Our manufacturing facilities are located at Green River, Wyoming, USA. Formerly known as General Chemical Industrial Products, the company was established in 1884.
(It is noteworthy that the media contact on Tata Chemicals press releases is former WY State Legislator Jon Conrad.)
BWXT signed a Letter of Intent (Dec 12, 2024) and a Cooperative Agreement (Sept 28, 2023) with Tata Chemicals Soda Ash Partners.
News/Press Releases
| March 26, 2025 BWXT: The Advanced Technologies team is also working on the BWXT Advanced Nuclear Reactor, or BANR, a high-temperature gas reactor that is being designed to produce 50 MWt using TRISO fuel, and small enough to be transported by rail, ship or truck. BWXT recently signed a letter of intent with Tata Chemicals Soda Ash Partners LLC to explore deploying up to eight BANRs at a mining site in Wyoming. (https://www.bwxt.com/bwxt-launches-innovation-campus-to-speed-development-of-advanced-nuclear-technologies/) |
| Dec 18, 2024 Tata Chemicals Announces Letter of Intent to Explore Deployment of Nuclear Microreactors According to a press release from Tata Chemicals, the letter of intent signed by the two companies agree to expand that collaboration to include development of commercial terms and conditions to purchase microreactors from BWXT and establish a schedule to deploy them by the early 2030s. The collaboration would also expand to allow the two to determine the “techno-economic parameters” necessary to turn reactor purchase commitments into an energy purchase agreement… (https://www.sweetwaternow.com/tata-chemicals-announces-letter-of-intent-to-explore-deployment-of-nuclear-microreactors/) |
| Dec 12, 2024 Tata – BWXT Letter of Intent |
| Sept 28, 2023 Tata – BWXT Cooperative Agreement |