Programmes and agreements / prg-us-natura-3m-lithium7-cooperation-2025
Natura and 3M lithium-7 development and qualification agreement
Natura and 3M signed a cooperative work agreement on 4 November 2025. 3M agreed to begin developing and qualifying lithium-7 for molten-salt reactor technology. No supply quantity, delivered material, reactor deployment or completed qualification is established. This is distinct from the later DOE FLiBe allocation.
- Type
- Research programme
- Countries concerned
- United States
- Participants and roles
- Developer or vendor: Natura Resources
- Developer or vendor: 3M
- Designs named
- Natura MSR-100
- Scale as stated
- Not stated by the sources
- Announced or first reported
- 4 Nov 2025
- Recorded status
- Status not established
Historical issuer announcement. Later implementation was not re-reviewed in this archive pass. Read the source dates: this does not confirm continuing activity today. - Confidence
- medium
- Not yet recorded
- Expected but not recorded as a structured fact: Status. A missing structured fact does not mean zero or that it does not exist; a documented review limit is named beside the fact, and the description and sources may say more.
- Record reviewed
- 2026-10-19 (record review date, not proof of current activity)
Related deployment projects
- No related deployment project is recorded here.
Sources
- Natura Resources issuer release, 2025-11-04 (company_primary, published 4 Nov 2025, accessed 2026-10-19)